What is "covets"

Usage examples of "covets".

You have shown yourselves no better than the lowliest peasant who covets a piece of coral as a ward against witchcraft!

How dared he have the audacity to say the proscriptions would end on the Kalends of last month-the names are still going up on the rostra every time one of his minions or his relatives covets another luscious slice of Campania or the seashore!