2. To cover with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a jar
with tin foil; to coat a ceiling.
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.