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A layer of any substance covering another; a cover; a tegument; as, the coats of the eye; the coats of an onion; a coat of tar or varnish.

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

The top or head of anything. [Obs.] W. Gifford.

Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.

ted with a crest, which can be raised or depressed at will. There are several genera and many species; as the broad-crested (Plictolophus, or Cacatua, cristatus), the sulphur-crested (P. galeritus), etc. The palm or great black cockatoo of Australia is Microglossus aterrimus. Cock"a*trice, n. Etym: [OF. cocatrice croco…

Any venomous or deadly thing.

A pet name for any small bird.

The case constructed by any insect to contain its larva or pupa.

Any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals. Code civil or Code Napoleon, a code enacted in France in 1803 and 1804, e…

An ancient manuscript of the Sacred Scriptures, or any part of them, particularly the New Testament.

The act of buying the whole quantity of any commodity. [R.] Bacon.

To compel or constrain to any action; as, to coerce a man to vote for a certain candidate.

To exist at the same time; -- sometimes followed by with. Of substances no one has any clear idea, farther than of certain simple ideas coexisting together. Locke. So much purity and integrity . . . coexisting with so much decay and so many infirmities. Warburton.

h another; -- contemporary existence. Without the help, or so much as the coexistence, of any condition. Jer. Taylor.

Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural. He would discharge it without any burden to the queen's coffers, for honor sake. Bacon. Hold, here is half my coffer. Shak.

Any device in which an imperfectly conducting contact between pieces of metal or other conductors loosely resting against each other is materially improved in conductivity by the influence of Hertzian waves; -- so called by Sir O. J. Lodge in 1894 on the assumption that the impact of the electic waves caused the loosel…

Any band or body of warriors. With him the cohort bright Of watchful cherubim. Milton.

practice of quartering one's self as landlord on a tenant; a quartering of one's self on anybody. [Ireland] Spenser.

nsuring himself to the extent of that part of the risk not covered by his policy, so that any loss is apportioned between him and the insurance company on the principle of average, as in marine insurance or between other insurers.

The complement of the latitude, or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees.