discovert

English edit

Etymology edit

Old French descovert, past participle of descovrir (“to uncover”).

Noun edit

discovert (plural discoverts)

(obsolete) An uncovered place or part.

Derived terms edit

at discovert

Adjective edit

discovert (not comparable)

(law, obsolete) Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “discovert”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)