1. (n.) A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.
2. (n.) A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain.
3. (n.) A concave molding.
4. (n.) A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight.
5. (v. t.) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
6. (v. t.) To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
7. (n.) A boy or man of any age or station.
Thesaurus Entries
Adamite, abri, alcove, antre, apse, arcade, arcature, arch, arched roof, archway, arm, armlet, bastard, bay, bayou, being, belt, bight, bird, boca, body, bugger, bunker, burrow, camber, carrel, cat, cave, cavern, ceilinged roof, chap, character, concameration, concha, corner, cranny, creature, creek, cubby, cubbyhole, cubicle, cupola, customer, dome, duck, dugout, earthling, estuary, euripus, feller, fellow, fjord, foxhole, frith, geodesic dome, grot, grotto, groundling, gulf, gut, guy, hand, harbor, head, hole, homo, human, human being, igloo, individual, inglenook, inlet, jasper, joker, keystone, kyle, lad, lair, life, living soul, loch, man, mortal, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, niche, nook, nose, ogive, one, oriel, party, person, personage, personality, pitchhole, reach, recess, recession, road, roads, roadstead, roomlet, sewer, single, skewback, slough, snuggery, somebody, someone, soul, sound, span, strait, straits, stud, subterrane, subway, tellurian, terran, tunnel, vault, vaulting, voussoir, warren, worldling
