coats

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That the secretion penetrates their coats is also evident from the large proportion of cabbage, raddish, and cress seeds which were killed, and from several of the seedlings being greatly injured.

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  1. noun A sleeved outer garment extending from the shoulders to the waist or below.
  2. noun A garment extending to just below the waist and usually forming the top part of a suit.
  3. noun A natural outer covering, such as the fur of an animal; an integument.

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  • This success at the centre gave time for Davoust to wrest Neusiedel from the white-coats, a movement which would have been stopped or crushed, had the Archduke John obeyed his brother's orders and marched from the side of Pressburg on Napoleon's unguarded right flank. —  The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)
  • The contention was not now with British red-coats, as in the Revolution, but with our brethren in gray. —  A Woman's Life-Work
  • Drained by the white-coats, they now refused to be bled for the benefit of the blue-coats of France. —  The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)
  • There is an almost amusing coolness in that open display of a saucer for the receipt of tips on the counter at which the coats are applied for. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
  • Men in red hunting-coats, all very dark, and all standing on a platform here, bowed and waved their handkerchiefs. —  George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends
 

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