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4 definitions found 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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