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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Coat \Coat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Coated}; p. pr & vb n.
{Coating}.]
1. To cover with a coat or outer garment.
2. To cover with a layer of any substance; as to coat a jar
with tin foil; to coat a ceiling.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Coat \Coat\ (k[=o]t; 110), n. [OF. cote, F. cotte, petticoat,
cotte d'armes coat of arms, cotte de mailles coat of mail
LL cota, cotta, tunic, prob. of German origin; cf OHG.
chozzo coarse mantle, G. klotze D. kot, hut, E. cot. Cf
{Cot} a hut.]
1. An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body;
especially, such a garment worn by men.
Let each His adamantine coat gird well --Milton.
2. A petticoat. [Obs.] ``A child in coats.'' --Locke.
3. The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the
order or office; cloth.
Men of his coat should be minding their prayers.
--Swift.
She was sought by spirits of richest coat. --Shak.
4. An external covering like a garment, as fur, skin, wool,
husk, or bark; as the horses coats were sleek.
Fruit of all kinds, in coat Rough or smooth rined,
or bearded husk, or shell. --Milton.
5. 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.
6. Same as Coat of arms. See below.
Hark, countrymen! either renew the fight, Or tear
the lions out of England's coat. --Shak.
7. A coat card. See below. [Obs.]
Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were
ranked with coats as long as old master lived.
--Massinger.
{Coat armor}. See under {Armor}.
{Coat of arms} (Her.), a translation of the French cotte
d'armes, a garment of light material worn over the armor
in the 15th and 16th centuries. This was often charged
with the heraldic bearings of the wearer. Hence an
heraldic achievement; the bearings of any person, taken
together.
{Coat card}, a card bearing a coated figure; the king, queen,
or knave of playing cards. ```I am a coat card indeed.'
`Then thou must needs be a knave, for thou art neither
king nor queen.''' --Rowley.
{Coat link}, a pair of buttons or studs joined by a link, to
hold together the lappels of a double-breasted coat; or a
button with a loop for a single-breasted coat.
{Coat of mail}, a defensive garment of chain mail See {Chain
mail}, under {Chain}.
{Mast coat} (Naut.), a piece of canvas nailed around a mast,
where it passes through the deck, to prevent water from
getting below.
{Sail coat} (Naut.), a canvas cover laced over furled sails,
and the like to keep them dry and clean.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
coat
n 1: an outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from
shoulder down worn outdoors
2: a thin layer on something "a second coat of paint" [syn: {coating}]
3: growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal
v 1: put a coat on cover the surface of furnish with a surface;
"coat the cake with cholocate" [syn: {surface}]
2: cover or provide with a coat
3: form a coat over "Dirt had coated her face" [syn: {cake}]
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Coat
the tunic worn like the shirt next the skin (Lev. 16:4; Cant.
5:3; 2 Sam. 15:32; Ex 28:4; 29:5). The "coats of skins"
prepared by God for Adam and Eve were probably nothing more than
aprons (Gen. 3:21). This tunic was sometimes woven entire
without a seam (John 19:23); it was also sometimes of "many
colours" (Gen. 37:3; R.V. marg., "a long garment with sleeves").
The "fisher's coat" of John 21:7 was obviously an outer garment
or cloak, as was also the coat" made by Hannah for Samuel (1
Sam. 2:19). (See {DRESS}.)
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