it in 1566, and died about two years afterwards. He was buried February 19, 1568. Coverdale was the author of several tracts designed to promote the Reformation, and made various translations from the works of the Continental Reformers. His works and letters were published with a memoir, by the Parker Society (Cambridge, 1844-46). Consult, also: Memorials of Myles Coverdale (London, 1838); F. Fry, The Bible by Coverdale (London, 1867).
COVERED WAY, or COVERT WAY. A term used in fortification to describe a passage constructed on the side of the ditch toward the enemy. See Fortification.
COVERLY, kŭv′ẽr-lĭ, Sir Roger de. An old English dance, so called from the tune used during its performance. Neither the author of the tune nor the date of its composition is known, but the editor of the Skene MS. claims the tune as Scotch, on the authority of a MS. dated 1706, and says that north of the Tweed it is known as the “Mautman comes on Monday.” The tune is variously called “Old Roger of Coverly for evermore, a Lancashire Hornpipe;” “Roger of Coverly;” “Roger a Coverly,” in Gay's opera Polly; “Roger de Coverly,” in Robin Hood; and “Sir Roger de Coverly,” in Fielding's Tom Jones. A song, “O Brave Roger de Coverly,” is contained in Pills to Purge Melancholy. The dance is an old-fashioned country-dance (or contredanse), and is known in the United States as the “Virginia reel.” Addison took the name for his Sir Roger de Coverley in the Spectator.
COVERSED (kō̇-vẽrst′) SINE. See Trigonometry.
COVERTURE (OF. coverture, Fr. couverture, covering, from ML. cooptura, from Lat. cooperire, to cover, from co-, together + operire, to cover, for opverire, Lith. uzh-veriù, I shut). Under the common law, the legal condition or status of a married woman. By that law, an unmarried woman, whether spinster or widow, is a ‘complete juristic person,’ having the same standing before the law as a man. Upon marrying, however, i.e. coming under the protection of a man, her legal position is radically altered, and, in many respects, completely merged in that of her husband. This is especially true of her property rights. Her goods and chattels at once become his property. He acquires custody of her claims against others (choses in action), and may collect them for his own benefit. Her land passes under his control, and he acquires a joint seisin with her therein and may take the rents and profits to his own use during the continuance of the marriage relation. On the other hand, he becomes liable to pay her debts, those contracted before as well as those contracted after marriage, and under some circumstances he is responsible for her torts and crimes. The modern legislation which has almost restored to the married woman her lost personality will be described under the titles Husband and Wife and Married Woman. Consult the authorities referred to under these titles, and also those under Common Law.
COVIELLE, kō̇′-vyĕl′. In Molière's Le bourgeois gentilhomme, Cléonte's valet, whose wit brings about the marriage of Cléonte and Lucille.
COVIELLO, kō̇′vyĕl′lō̇. The clown of old Italian popular comedy.
COVILHÃO, kō̇′vē̇-lyouN′. A town of Portugal, in the Province of Beira, situated on the southeastern slope of the Serra da Estrella at an altitude of 2180 feet (Map: Portugal, B 2). It is commanded by a castle, and is one of the chief centres of cloth manufacturing in Portugal. Population, in 1890, 17,562; in 1900, 15,527.
CO′VILLE, Frederick Vernon (1867—). An American botanist, born at Preston, N. Y. He received his education at Cornell University and was instructor in botany there from 1887 to 1888. In the latter year he became connected with the United States Department of Agriculture, and after serving five years as assistant in botany, was made curator of the United States National Herbarium. In 1899 he was elected president of the Biological Society of Washington. His publications include a monograph on the Botany of the Death Valley Expedition (1893), the author having taken part in the expedition during 1890-91. He also prepared a number of valuable reports.
COVINGTON, kŭv′ĭng-t𝑜n. A city and the county-seat of Newton County, Ga., 40 miles east-southeast of Atlanta; on the Georgia and the Central of Georgia railroads (Map: Georgia, C 2). It contains a female college, and is the commercial centre of a cotton-growing and dairying region. Population, in 1890, 1823; in 1900, 2062.
COVINGTON. A city and the county-seat of Fountain County, Ind., 70 miles west by north of Indianapolis; on the Wabash River, and on the Wabash, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and Saint Louis, and other railroads (Map: Indiana, B 2). Population, in 1890, 1891; in 1900, 2213.
COVINGTON. A city and the county-seat of Kenton County, Ky., at the junction of the Ohio and Licking rivers, opposite Cincinnati, of which it is practically a suburb (Map: Kentucky, G 1). It is entered by the Louisville and Nashville, the Kentucky Central, and the Chesapeake and Ohio railroads, and electric railroads also connect it with the neighboring towns. Bridges to Cincinnati and to Newport, Ky., add to the facilities for communication,, the great suspension bridge to the former city being a noteworthy specimen of engineering. (See Cincinnati.) Covington occupies an area of about two and one-third square miles on a beautiful plain partly surrounded by hills, and resembles Cincinnati in its general arrangement. Of a total street mileage of about 45 miles, more than three-fourths are paved, the great part with macadam and asphalt. The city has many handsome private residences, a public library, city hall, and a Federal building noteworthy as a specimen of modern Gothic; and among charitable institutions, a hospital for contagious diseases, a German orphan asylum, and a home for aged men and women. Covington is a prominent centre of Roman Catholic influence, the cathedral, a type of flamboyant Gothic, being one of the finest ecclesiastical structures in the State. Connected with this denomination there are also a Benedictine priory, a convent, a hospital and foundling asylum, and Notre Dame Academy. The facilities for transportation, both by rail and by water, placing the city in communication with a wide territory possessing valuable natural advantages, have contributed to the commercial
