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To be adjusted; to fit; as, a coat sts well or ill. This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, Sits not so easy on me as you think. Shak.

To put on the finishing coat of plaster.

The bark or husk of a plant or fruit; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.

The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.

tleman abused by a cabman or slanged by a bargee was bound there and then to take off his coat and challenge him to fisticuffs. London Spectator.

The part of a garment which covers the arm; as, the sleeve of a coat or a gown. Chaucer.

A waterproof coat. [Western U.S.]

a cable. (Naut.) See under Cable. -- To slip off, to take off quickly; as, to slip off a coat. -- To slip on, to put on in haste or loosely; as, to slip on a gown or coat.

A kind of overcoat worn upon the shoulders in the manner of a cloak. [Scot.]

A biennial umbelliferous plant (Apium graveolens) native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.

been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance. The coat of arms Now on a naked snag in triumph borne. Dryden.

An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket. [Obs.]

s water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud. Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people. Burke.

The covering of a seed; -- sometimes limited to the outer coat or testa. Lindley.

One of certain minute coiled threads in the coating of some seeds. When moistened these threads protrude in great numbers. Gray.

ay; to frolic; to wanton. [Fish], sporting with quick glance, Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold. Milton.

ts bark. And strippen her out of her rude array. Chaucer. They stripped Joseph out of his coat. Gen. xxxvii. 23. Opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown. Macaulay.

The chevron on the coat of a noncommissioned officer. Stars and Stripes. See under Star, n.

Plaster of any kind used as a coating for walls, especially, a fine plaster, composed of lime or gypsum with sand and pounded marble, used for internal decorations and fine work.

Situated above the choroid; -- applied to the layer of the choroid coat of the eyeball next to the sclerotic.