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A coat worn over the other clothing; a greatcoat; a topcoat.

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 long cloak or overcoat, especially one with a hood.

A heavy quality of broadcloth for overcoats.

A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time.

The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons.

An overcoat.

A like appendage to a cloak or loose overcoat, that may be drawn up over the head at pleasure.

r; also, excessive; too much or too great; -- chiefly used in composition; as, overshoes, overcoat, over-garment, overlord, overwork, overhaste.

An overcoat. Dickens.

A rough, knotted woolen cloth, used chiefly for men's overcoats; also, a coat of that material.

essels. -- Pilot bread, ship biscuit. -- Pilot cloth, a coarse, stout kind of cloth for overcoats. -- Pilot engine, a locomotive going in advance of a train to make sure that the way is clear. -- Pilot fish. (Zoöl) (a) A pelagic carangoid fish (Naucrates ductor); -- so named because it is often seen in company with…

A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named from Lord Raglan, an English general.

A kind of overcoat worn upon the shoulders in the manner of a cloak. [Scot.]

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

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.

An outer coat; an overcoat.

A long, loose overcoat, worn by men and women, originally made of frieze from Ulster, Ireland.

A coat worn under another; a light coat, as distinguished from an overcoat, or a greatcoat.