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A man's coat to be worn over his other garments; an overcoat, especially when long, and fitting closely like a body coat. Gay.

allow's tail in form; having narrow and tapering or pointed skirts; as, a swallow- tailed coat.

A swallow-tailed coat. This Stultz coat, a blue swallowtail, with yellow buttons. Thackeray.

A kind of outer coat, or overcoat; -- said to be so named after a celebrated Italian family of professional dancers. He ought certainly to exchange his taglioni, or comfortable greatcoat, for a cuirass of steel. Sir W. Scott.

oy; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat. This man always takes time . . . before he passes his judgments. I. Watts.

An area in the pigmented layer of the choroid coat of the eye in many animals, which has an iridescent or metallic luster and helps to make the eye visible in the dark. Sometimes applied to the whole layer of pigmented epithelium of the choroid.

The inner layer of the coating of a seed, usually thin and delicate; the endopleura.

Thin iron sheets coated with an alloy of lead and tin; -- so called because made up of three metals.

Fitting close, or too close, to the body; as, a tight coat or other garment.

The crest on a coat of arms. [Written also timbre.]

The crest on a coat of arms.

es, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. S…

The act, art, or process of covering or coating anything with melted tin, or with tin foil, as kitchen utensils, locks, and the like.

cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like. Who can discern the tinsel from the gold Dryden.

An antelope (Damaliscus corrigum jimela) having a glossy purplish brown coat. It is related to the blesbok and is native of British East Africa. Also, any of various related varieties of other districts south of the Sahara.

One who flees from one side to another; hence, a deserter; a turncoat; an apostate. [R.]

The act of laying on coats of plaster with a trowel.

Covered with a tunic; covered or coated with layers; as, a tunicated bulb.

to be the outside of; to reverse the position of; as, to turn a box or a board; to turn a coat.

A long, loose overcoat, worn by men and women, originally made of frieze from Ulster, Ireland.