The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Covey \Cov"ey\, v. i.
   To brood; to incubate. [Obs.]
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         [Tortoises] covey a whole year before they hatch.
                                                  --Holland.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Covey \Cov"ey\, n.
   A pantry. [Prov. Eng.] --Parker.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Covey \Cov"ey\ (k?v"?), n. [OF. cov?e, F. couv?e, fr. cover, F.
   couver, to sit or brood on, fr. L. cubare to lie down; cf. E.
   incubate. See Cubit, and cf. Cove to brood.]
   1. A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of
      young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together;
      -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges. --Darwin.
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   2. A company; a bevy; as, a covey of girls. --Addison.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

covey
    n 1: a small collection of people
    2: a small flock of grouse or partridge

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

89 Moby Thesaurus words for "covey":
   a mass of, a world of, age group, army, band, battalion, bevy,
   body, brigade, bunch, cabal, cast, charm, clique, cloud, clutter,
   cohort, company, complement, contingent, corps, coterie, crew,
   crowd, detachment, detail, division, faction, fleet, flight, flock,
   flocks, gaggle, gang, group, grouping, groupment, hail, hive, host,
   in-group, jam, junta, large amount, legion, lots, many, masses of,
   mob, movement, muchness, multitude, murmuration, nest, numbers,
   out-group, outfit, pack, party, peer group, phalanx, plague,
   platoon, plurality, posse, quantities, quite a few, regiment, rout,
   ruck, salon, scores, set, shoal, skein, spring, squad, stable,
   string, swarm, team, throng, tidy sum, tribe, troop, troupe, watch,
   wing, worlds of