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An outer garment made of the skins of birds or mammals, worn by Eskimos, etc.

An outer garment for men or women, originally of fur, or lined with fur; a lady's outer garment, made of silk or other fabric.

The outer layer of bark.

The outer boundary of a body or figure, or the sum of all the sides.

The outer, hardened integument which covers most hydroids.

The outer covering of a spore.

To whiten or clean with pipe clay, as a soldier's accouterments.

f the family Pleurotmidæ. The species are very numerous, especially in tropical seas. The outer lip has usually a posterior notch or slit.

Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow.

An article of dress for women, consisting of a body and an outer skirt in one piece.

from Illinois westward. See Illustration in Appendix. -- Porcupine wood (Bot.), the hard outer wood of the cocoa palm; -- so called because, when cut horizontally, the markings of the wood resemble the quills of a porcupine.

Situated on the outer side of a filament; -- said of an extrorse anther.

See Pouter.

e eyes are bright yellow; the sides of the throat and spots along the sides, black; three outer tail feathers partly white. -- Prairie wolf. (Zoöl.) See Coyote.

The outermost of the two integuments of an ovule.

In the Ptolemaic system, the outermost of the revolving concentric spheres constituting the universe, the motion of which was supposed to carry with it all the inclosed spheres with their planets in a daily revolution from east to west. See Crystalline heavens, under Crystalline. The motions of the greatest persons in…

color is golden yellow, the back is olivaceous, the rump and tail are ash-color, several outer tail feathers are partly white.

A genus of large marine gastropods having the outer border of the lip divided into lobes; -- called also scorpion shell.

r pertaining to, or designating, a bone between the proötic and epiotic in the dorsal and outer part of the periotic capsule of many fishes. -- n.

rd from either side of the sphenoid bone, in man divided into two plates, an inner and an outer. The posterior nares pass through the space, called the pterygoid fossa, between the processes.