coat

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A sleeved outer garment extending from the shoulders to the waist or below.
2. n. A garment extending to just below the waist and usually forming the top part of a suit.
3. n. A natural outer covering, such as the fur of an animal; an integument.
4. n. A layer of material covering something else; a coating: a second coat of paint.
5. v. To provide or cover with a coat.
6. v. To cover with a layer, as of paint.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A variant spelling of cote.
2. n. A principal outer garment; any covering for the body.
3. n. An outer or upper garment worn by men, covering the upper part of the body. In the early middle ages it was identical with what is now called a tunic, or sometimes with the cassock and corset (which see). Coats of modern form, fitted to the body and having loose skirts, first appeared in the reign of Charles II. of England. Since the beginning of the eighteenth century the coat has been of two general fashions: a broad-skirted coat, now reduced to the form of the frock-coat (which see), and a coat with the skirts cut away at the sides (the modern dress-coat), worn now only as a part of what is called evening dress. There are many other styles, as coats without skirts, or sack-coats; coats with the skirts cut away diagonally from the front downward, or cutaway coats, etc. See also overcoat.
4. n. A woman's outdoor garment resembling a man's coat in material and make.
5. n. An under garment for the upper part of the body, fitting somewhat closely; a tunic or shirt.
6. n. A petticoat.
7. n. The habit or vesture of an order or class of men, and hence the order or class itself, or the office or station peculiar to the order; cloth.
8. n. The external natural covering of an animal, as hair, fur, wool, etc.
9. n. A thin layer of a substance covering a surface; a coating: as, a coat of paint, pitch, or varnish; a coat of tinfoil.
10. n. One of a number of concentric layers: as, the coats of an onion.
11. n. In anatomy, a tunic or membranous covering of some part or organ: as, the coats of the eye.
12. n. Nautical, a piece of tarred or painted canvas fitted about the masts at the partuers, about the rudder-casing, and around the pumps where they pass through the upper deck, to keep the water from working down. See mast-coat.
13. n. A coat-card.
14. n. In heraldry, a coat of arms or an achievement: used in a general sense.
15. n. Same as coat-money.
16. n. A coat of mail.
17. n. A surcoat or tabard embroidered with armorial bearings, such as in modern times is worn only by a herald of arms on rare ceremonial occasions. It is a survival of the medieval surcoat. (which see).
18. n. In a more general sense, any defensive garment for the body, quilted with small plates, rings, or scales of iron. (See gambeson and broigne.) The use of the term to denote plate-armor is erroneous.
19. To cover with a coat or outer garment; cover or protect as with a coat.
20. To overspread with a coating or layer of another substance: as, to coat something with wax or tin-foil.
21. n. A somewhat similar jacket worn by women.

Wiktionary

1. n. countable An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.
2. n. countable A covering of material, such as paint.
3. n. countable The fur or feathers of animal.
4. n. uncountable, nautical canvas painted with thick tar and secured round a mast or bowsprit to prevent water running down the sides into the hold (now made of rubber or leather)
5. v. To cover with a coat of some material
6. v. To cover as a coat.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men.
2. n. obsolete A petticoat.
3. n. The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
4. n. An external covering like a garment, as fur, skin, wool, husk, or bark.
5. n. A layer of any substance covering another; a cover; a tegument.
6. n. Same as Coat of arms. See below.
7. n. obsolete A coat card. See below.
8. v. To cover with a coat or outer garment.
9. v. To cover with a layer of any substance.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. form a coat over
2. n. a thin layer covering something
3. v. put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface
4. v. cover or provide with a coat
5. n. growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal
6. n. an outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down; worn outdoors