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Icelandic _hylja_, to cover.] {250} [By a curious slip Dr. Trench here confounds ‘recover’, to recuperate or regain health (derived through old French _recovrer_ from Latin _recuperare_), with a totally distinct word _re-cover_, to cover or clothe over again, which comes from old French
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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