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The art or process of depositing a coating (commonly) of silver, gold, or nickel on an inferior metal, by means of electricity.

ike, the colors being afterwards fixed by fire. -- Enamel paper, paper glazed a metallic coating.

The inner coating of a seed. See Tegmen.

face of a wall with material different from that of which it is chiefly composed, or the coating or material so used.

y fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose. Flock bed, a bed filled with flocks or locks of coarse wool, or pieces of cloth cut up fine. "Once…

The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.

Any coating considered as resembling fur; as:

The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold.

The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3. Ure.

A layer or coating of gravel (on a path, etc.).

ydractinia and allied genera. These hydroids form, by their rootstalks, a firm, chitinous coating on shells and stones, and esp. on spiral shells occupied by hermit crabs. See Illust. of Athecata.

A coating or covering resembling ice, as of sugar and milk or white of egg; frosting.

A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit of lime, sediment, etc., from water on the inner surface of a steam boiler.

A transparent, extensible membrane of extreme tenuity, which forms the innermost coating of grains of pollen.

ish, consisting essentially of asphaltum dissolved in naphtha or turpentine, and used for coating ironwork; -- called also Brunswick black, Japan lacquer, or simply Japan. -- Japan camphor, ordinary camphor brought from China or Japan, as distinguished from the rare variety called borneol or Borneo camphor. -- Japan…

ed, or coated, with varnish in the Japanese manner. Japanned leather,leather treated with coatings of Japan varnish, and dried in a stove. Knight.

t, 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.

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

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.

positive picture produced with sensitized collodion on a smooth surface of black varnish, coating a thin plate of iron; also, the process of making such a picture. [Written also melainotype.]