frock

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A woman's dress.
2. n. A long loose outer garment, as that worn by artists and craftspeople; a smock.
3. n. A woolen garment formerly worn by sailors; a jersey.
4. n. A robe worn by monks, friars, and other clerics; a habit.
5. v. To clothe in a frock.
6. v. To invest with clerical office.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A garment with large sleeves worn by monks.
2. n. A garment covering the body and worn by either sex. A loose outer garment worn by workmen, as agricultural laborers, etc., over their other clothes. Compare smock-frock.
3. n. The principal outer garment of women: a term partly abandoned in recent times for the indistinctive word dress and the word gown, but still retained, particularly in the British islands, for the outer garment, consisting of a bodice or waist and a skirt, worn by children.
4. n. Same as frock-coat.
5. n. In the British service, the undress regimental coat of the guards, artillery, and royal marines.
6. n. A sort of worsted netting worn by sailors, often in lieu of a shirt. Also called a Guernsey frock. Jamieson.
7. To supply or cover with a frock; hence, to invest with the privileges of those whose distinctive dress is a frock, as of a monk. See frock, n., 1.
8. n. A frog.

Wiktionary

1. n. dialectal A frog.
2. n. A dress, a piece of clothing for a female, which consists of a skirt and a cover for the upper body.
3. n. An outer garment worn by priests and other clericals, a habit.
4. v. To clothe in a frock.
5. v. To make a cleric.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A loose outer garment; especially, a gown forming a part of European modern costume for women and children; also, a coarse shirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their other clothes; a smock frock.
2. n. A coarse gown worn by monks or friars, and supposed to take the place of all, or nearly all, other garments. It has a hood which can be drawn over the head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord.
3. v. To clothe in a frock.
4. v. To make a monk of. Cf. Unfrock.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a habit worn by clerics
2. n. a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice
3. v. put a frock on