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A kind of short petticoat, reaching from the waist to the knees, worn in the Highlands of Scotland by men, and in the Lowlands by young boys; a filibeg. [Written also kelt.]

Tucked or fastened up; -- said of petticoats, etc.

To beat; to lash; to make stripes on. [Colloq.] I'll lace your coat for ye. L'Estrange.

The act or business of putting on lacquer; also, the coat of lacquer put on.

The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron. Chaucer.

part of a garment which is turned back; specifically, the lap, or fold, of the front of a coat in continuation of collar. [Written also lappel and lapelle.]

The first coat on laths of plasterer's two-coat work.

a division (Lepidoganoidei) of ganoid fishes, including those that have scales forming a coat of mail. Also used adjectively.

Having a coat of scurfy scales, as the leaves of the oleaster.

A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate electricity. It is coated with tin foil, within and without, nearly to its top, and is surmounted by a brass knob which communicates with the inner coating, for the purpose of charging it with electricity. It is so named from having been invented in Leyden, Holland.…

moreligneous nature, will incorporate with the tree itself. Bacon. Ligneous marble, wood coated or prepared so as to resemble marble.

a garment or a box; also, the contents of anything. The lining of his coffers shall make coats To deck our soldiers. Shak.

A small lion, especially one of several borne in the same coat of arms.

The first thin coat of tin.

From the periodical deliveries of these characteristic articles of servile costume (blue coats) came our word livery. De Quincey.

Texas; -- a nickname alluding to the single star on its coat of arms, being the device used on its flag and seal when it was a republic.

its, to the bottom of the weist, or to the skirt; -- said of garments; as, a long-waisted coat.

To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute, a crust, coating, or plates.

-- originally in the form of a lozenge. Lozenge coach, the coach of a dowager, having her coat of arms painted on a lozenge. [Obs.] Walpole. -- Lozenge-molding (Arch.), a kind of molding, used in Norman architecture, characterized by lozenge-shaped ornaments.

ible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting.