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White metal coated with silver. Simmonds.

A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white water lily. The mace of the nutmeg is also an aril. Gray.

Orig., a printing-out process using paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin; now, any such process using silver salts in either collodion or gelatin; also, a print so made.

or iron covering, whether of ships or forts, protecting them from the fire of artillery. Coat armor, the escutcheon of a person or family, with its several charges and other furniture, as mantling, crest, supporters, motto, etc. -- Submarine, a water-tight dress or covering for a diver. See under Submarine.…

One skilled in coat armor or heraldry. Cussans.

That branch of hplwaldry which treats of coat armor. The science of heraldry, or, more justly speaking, armory, which is but one branch of heraldry, is, without doubt, of very ancient origin. Cussans.

A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries.

A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor. Cussans.

rse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors. A new black baize waistcoat lined with silk. Pepys.

A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.

A long woolen petticoat, worn immediately under the dress.

med after Lord Baltimore, because its colors (black and orange red) are like those of his coat of arms; -- called also golden robin.

The lower part of a robe or petticoat. [Obs.]

A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously.

Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl. A carriage covered with armorial bearings. Thackeray.

A coarse, shaggy, woolen cloth for overcoats.

Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woolen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats. Beaver rat (Zoöl.), an aquatic ratlike quadruped of Tasmania (Hydromys chrysogaster). -- Beaver skin, the furry skin of the beaver. -- Bank beaver. See under 1st Bank.

A kind of upper coat for men. [Colloq. Eng.]

erlin wool. Berlin black, a black varnish, drying with almost a dead surface; -- used for coating the better kinds of ironware. Ure. -- Berlin blue, Prussian blue. Ure. -- Berlin green, a complex cyanide of iron, used as a green dye, and similar to Prussian blue. -- Berlin iron, a very fusible variety of cast iron,…

To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.