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substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them. He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith. Ecclus. xiii. 1.

A petticoat, esp. an under petticoat; hence, a cant term for a woman. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A composition of lime, water, and sand, with or without hair as a bond, for coating walls, ceilings, and partitions of houses. See Mortar.

A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light.

One who plates or coats articles with gold or silver; as, a silver plater.

A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.

o it; -- with at. Now must the world point at poor Katharine. Shak. Point at the tattered coat and ragged shoe. Dryden.

snake, a tool used in cleaning lithographic stones. -- Polishing wheel, a wheel or disk coated with, or composed of, abrading material, for polishing a surface.

The art or process of coating the inside of glass vessels with engravings or paintings, so as to give them the appearance of painted ware.

The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat. In the United States called scratch coat. Brande & C.

To lay the first color, coating, or preparation upon (a surface), as in painting; as, to prime a canvas, a wall.

The first coating of color, size, or the like, laid on canvas, or on a building, or other surface.

a merchant prince; a prince of players. "The prince of learning." Peacham. Prince-Albert coat, a long double-breasted frock coat for men. -- Prince of the blood, Prince consort, Prince of darkness. See under Blood, Consort, and Darkness. -- Prince of Wales, the oldest son of the English sovereign. -- Prince's feath…

Inversion and prolapse of the mucous coat of the rectum, from relaxation of the sphincter, with more or less swelling; prolapsus ani. Dunglison.

re, or the cooling influence of bodies. It is a differential thermometer, having one bulb coated with gold or silver leaf. [R.]

To arrange (different coats of arms) upon one escutcheon, as when a man inherits from both father and mother the right to bear arms.

The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.

The brown coati. See Coati.

ers of cloth and wadding of which a garment, comforter, etc., may be made; as, to quilt a coat. Dryden.

A coating of strands of rope for a water vessel.