Cov"er*ing, n.
Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc.
Noah removed the covering of the ark.
Gen. viii. 13.
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
Job. xxiv. 7.
A covering over the well's mouth.
2 Sam. xvii. 19.
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