LekhoriLekhoriObsolete spelling of covey.
Synonym of cove (“of a bird or other animal: to brood, cover, incubate, or sit over (eggs)”).
Their [tortoises'] manner is to go aland, vvhere among the graſſe they lay egges as bigge as birds egs, to the number commonly of an hundred. […] [I]n the night time ſit upon them: they couvie a whole yeere before they hatch.
See covey.
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