Meaning of आवरण in English

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.
To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak.
To invest (one's self with something); to bring upon (one's self); as, he covered himself with glory.
To hide sight; to conceal; to cloak; as, the enemy were covered from our sight by the woods.
To brood or sit on; to incubate.
To shelter, as from evil or danger; to protect; to defend; as, the cavalry covered the retreat.
To remove from remembrance; to put away; to remit.
To extend over; to be sufficient for; to comprehend, include, or embrace; to account for or solve; to counterbalance; as, a mortgage which fully covers a sum loaned on it; a law which covers all possible cases of a crime; receipts than do not cover expenses.
To put the usual covering or headdress on.
To copulate with (a female); to serve; as, a horse covers a mare; -- said of the male.
Anything which is laid, set, or spread, upon, about, or over, another thing; an envelope; a lid; as, the cover of a book.
Anything which veils or conceals; a screen; disguise; a cloak.
Shelter; protection; as, the troops fought under cover of the batteries; the woods afforded a good cover.
The woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game; covert; as, to beat a cover; to ride to cover.
The lap of a slide valve.
A tablecloth, and the other table furniture; esp., the table furniture for the use of one person at a meal; as, covers were laid for fifty guests.
To spread a table for a meal; to prepare a banquet.
A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head.
A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns.
The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also involucrum.
Sheet; surface; all that portion of a surface that is continuous in such a way that it is possible to pass from any one point of the portion to any other point of the portion without leaving the surface. Thus, some hyperboloids have one nappe, and some have two.
Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants.
That which sheathes.
The casing or covering of a ship's bottom and sides; the materials for such covering; as, copper sheathing.
The first covering of boards on the outside wall of a frame house or on a timber roof; also, the material used for covering; ceiling boards in general.
A cover or covering; an integument.
Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide.
A small cover; a lid.
To transport with pleasure; to delight beyond measure; to enravish.
A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope.
Same as Mantling.
The external fold, or folds, of the soft, exterior membrane of the body of a mollusk. It usually forms a cavity inclosing the gills. See Illusts. of Buccinum, and Byssus.
Any free, outer membrane.
The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
A mantel. See Mantel.
The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
A penstock for a water wheel.
To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise.
To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively.
To spread out; -- said of wings.
To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool.
To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc.
See Mantelet.
of Mantle
The representation of a mantle, or the drapery behind and around a coat of arms: -- called also lambrequin.
Forming or resembling a sheath or case.