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Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail.

A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named from Lord Raglan, an English general.

Wearing a rapier. "Scarletcoated, rapiered figures." Lowell.

. Chaucer. Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast Addison. The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Kiliecrankie. Macaulay.

A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs. See Canting arms, under Canting.

A long plain double-breasted outside coat for women.

A close-fitting lacket or short coat of thick cloth.

expression, or interpretation of an idea, theme, or part. (c) The act of laying the first coat of plaster on brickwork or stonework. (d) The coat of plaster thus laid on. Gwilt. (e) The process of trying out or extracting lard, tallow, etc., from animal fat.

Composed of crossing lines and interstices; reticular; netlike; as, the retiform coat of the eye.

o as to show the inside, or a piece put on in imitation of such a part, as the lapel of a coat.

The external covering or coat, as of flesh, fruit, trees, etc.; skin; hide; bark; peel; shell. Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind With all thy charms, although this corporal rind Thou hast immanacled. Milton. Sweetest nurind. Shak.

A cylinder coated with a composition made principally of glue and molassess, with which forms of type are inked previously to taking an impression from them. W. Savage.

eness; shaggy; ragged; disordered; -- said of dress, appearance, or the like; as, a rough coat. "A visage rough." Dryden. "Roughsatyrs." Milton.

The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it.

To coat or impregnate with rubber or a rubber solution or preparation, as silk.

ets unshipped, and for operating it in case the tiller or the wheel is broken. -- Rudder coat (Naut.), a covering of tarred canvas used to prevent water from entering the rudderhole. -- Rudder fish. (Zoöl.) (a) The pilot fish. (b) The amber fish (Seriola zonata), which is bluish having six broad black bands. (c) A pl…

The reddish yellow coating formed on iron when exposed to moist air, consisting of ferric oxide or hydroxide; hence, by extension, any metallic film of corrosion.

A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.

Anciently, a sackcloth coat worn by penitens on being reconciled to the church.

. See Illust. under Anomura. -- Sand canal (Zoöl.), a tubular vessel having a calcareous coating, and connecting the oral ambulacral ring with the madreporic tubercle. It appears to be excretory in function. -- Sand cock (Zoöl.), the redshank. [Prov. Eng.] -- Sand collar. (Zoöl.) Same as Sand saucer, below. -- Sand…