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The act of covering with a cloak; the act of concealing anything. To take heed of their dissembings and cloakings. Strype.

Boorish; rude. C. Bronté.

Anything which clogs. Dr. H. More.

Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing. Milton. As for me, . . . my clothing was sackloth. Ps. xxxv. 13

A mottled appearance given to ribbons and silks in the process of dyeing.

The noise or call of a brooding hen.

In clusters.

Mutually assisting. [Obs.] Drayton.

Raised pieces of wood of iron around a hatchway, skylight, or other opening in the deck, to prevent water from running bellow; esp. the fore-and-aft pieces of a hatchway frame as distinguished from the transverse head ledges. [Written also combings.]

Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast. Coasting trade, trade carried on by water between neighboring ports of the same country, as distinguished fron foreign trade or trade involving long voyages. -- Coasting vessel, a vessel employed in coasting; a coaster.

A coat or covering; a layer of any substance, as a cover or protection; as, the coating of a retort or vial.

In a coaxing manner; by coaxing.

Haughty; purse-proud. See Cob, n., 2. [Obs.] Withals (1608).

The time at which cooks first crow; the early morning.

The act or practice of pitting gamecocks to fight.

Cockfighting. Ben Jonson.

Lustful. [Obs.] Shak.

An immature apple. A codling when 't is almost an apple. Shak. Codling moth (Zoöl.), a small moth (Carpocapsa Pomonella), which in the larval state (known as the apple worm) lives in apples, often doing great damage to the crop.

A young cod; also, a hake.

Coexistent. Locke.