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ith. Should I don this robe and trouble you. Shak. At night, or in the rain, He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn. Emerson.

on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side; as, a double-breasted coat.

Sugar-coated medicines.

A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms.

To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop. Show to the sun their waved coats dropped with gold. Milton. To drop a vessel (Naut.), to leave it astern in a race or a chase; to outsail it.

but dross unclean. Spenser. At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross coats its ounce of gold. Lowell.

ich conducts dry steam from a boiler. -- Dry plate (Photog.), a glass plate having a dry coating sensitive to light, upon which photographic negatives or pictures can be made, without moistening. -- Dry-plate process, the process of photographing with dry plates. -- Dry point. (Fine Arts) (a) An engraving made with…

A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds. [Written also dun.] Three great rivers, the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt, had deposited their slime for ages among the dunes or sand banks heaved up by the ocean around their mouths. Motley.…

Dusty miller (Bot.), a plant (Cineraria maritima); -- so called because of the ashy-white coating of its leaves.

A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.

The act or art precipitating a metal electro-chemical action, by which a coating is deposited, on a prepared surface, as in electroplating and electrotyping; galvanoplasty.

To plate or cover with a coating of metal, usually silver, nickel, or gold, by means of electrolysis.

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

To ornament with needlework; as, to embroider a scarf. Thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen. Ex. xxviii. 39.

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

Coated or adorned with enamel; having a glossy or variegated surface; glazed. [Written also enamelled.]

The inner coating of a seed. See Tegmen.

The thin inner coat of certain spores.

The act of developing a new coat of hair, a new set of feathers, scales, etc.; -- opposed to ecdysis.

To coat with clay; to lute. [Obs.] Chaucer.