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To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.

r of the chivalry of all Spain. Southey. A simple maiden in her flower Is worth a hundred coats of arms. Tennyson.

The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons.

A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones. Ure.

To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.

The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.

t has a hood which can be drawn over the head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord. Frock coat, a body coat for men, usually doublebreasted, the skirts not being in one piece with the body, but sewed on so as to be somewhat full. -- Smock frock. See in the Vocabulary.

To ornament or fasten (a coat, etc.) with trogs. See Frog, n., 4.

Provided or ornamented with frogs; as, a frogged coat. See Frog, n., 4. Ld. Lytton.

rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight; slovenly; dingy. See Frowzy. "Petticoats in frouzy heaps." Swift.

e in an air-tight compartment to fumes of ammonia from uncorked cans, being first given a coat of filler.

Any coating considered as resembling fur; as:

To coat, as iron, with zinc. See Galvanized iron. Galvanized iron, formerly, iron coated with zink by electrical deposition; now more commonly, iron coated with zink by plunging into a bath of melted zink, after its surface has been cleaned by friction with the aid of dilute acid.

er of bone, and an outer layer of shining enamel. They are often so arranged as to form a coat of mail.

omposed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat, and easily separable.

Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16.

A softening of the coats of the stomach; -- usually a post- morten change.

To coat, or otherwise treat, with gelatin.

The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold.

Coated with icing; iced; glazed; -- said of fruits, sweetmeats, cake, etc.