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A superficial covering; a coating.

t of a seed. It grows from a placenta, and consists of a soft nucleus within two delicate coatings. The attached base of the ovule is the hilum, the coatings are united with the nucleus at the chalaza, and their minute orifice is the foramen.

-- also called starch-iodide paper -->

ainter's colic. (Med.) See Lead colic, under Colic. -- Painter stainer. (a) A painter of coats of arms. Crabb. (b) A member of a livery company or guild in London, bearing this name.

An overcoat. Dickens.

To cover or coat with palladium. [R.]

ver with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide. [Obs.] Being palliated with a pilgrim's coat. Sir T. Herbert.

To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses. Sir T. Herbert. The pargeted ceiling with pendants. R. L. Stevenson.

To take heed; to care. [Obs.] As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not. Shak.

To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.

A thick loose woolen jacket, or coat, much worn by sailors in cold weather.

A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon.

The covering, or coat, of a mammal, whether of wool, fur, or hair.

erskirt hanging like an ancient peplos; also, a short fitted skirt attached to a waist or coat.

The envelope or coat of certain fungi, such as the puffballs and earthstars.

A cloth of sky-blue color. [Obs.] "A long surcoat of pers." Chaucer.

A rough, knotted woolen cloth, used chiefly for men's overcoats; also, a coat of that material.

Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored; spotted; piebald. "Pied coats." Burton. "Meadows trim with daisies pied." Milton. Pied antelope (Zoöl.), the bontebok. -- Pied-billed grebe (Zoöl.), the dabchick. -- Pied blackbird (Zoöl.), any Asiatic thrush of the genus Turdulus. -- Pied finch (Zoöl.) (a) T…

ls. -- Pilot bread, ship biscuit. -- Pilot cloth, a coarse, stout kind of cloth for overcoats. -- Pilot engine, a locomotive going in advance of a train to make sure that the way is clear. -- Pilot fish. (Zoöl) (a) A pelagic carangoid fish (Naucrates ductor); -- so named because it is often seen in company with a s…

Maine; -- a nickname alluding to the pine tree in its coat of arms.