Word Meanings - COAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. 1. An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men. Let each His

Additional info about word: COAT

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. 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. "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. 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 , 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 , a piece of canvas nailed around a mast, where it passes through the deck, to prevent water from getting below. -- Sail coat , a canvas cover laced over furled sails, and the like, to keep them dry and clean.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COAT)

• Cajole
• Tempt
• lure
• coat
• flatter
• wheedle
• delude
• cheat
• inveigle
• dupe
• Encrust
• Coat
• line
• plaster
• face
• Incrust
• overlay
• Smear
• Daub
• spatter
• tarnish
• besmear
• begrime
• varnish
• incrust

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COAT)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse

Related words: (words related to COAT)

• CAJOLERY
  A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery. "Infamous cajoleries." Evelyn.
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• BESMEAR
  To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil. Besmeared with precious balm. Spenser.
• SMEAR DAB
  The sand fluke .
• INCRUSTATION
  A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement. (more info) 1. The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted. 2. A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit
• TEMPTER
  One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil. "Those who are bent to do wickedly will never want tempters to urge them on." Tillotson. So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton.
• OVERLAY
  To put an overlay on. (more info) 1. To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon. When any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it. Sir W. Raleigh. As when a cloud his beams
• TEMPTING
  Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures. -- Tempt"ing*ly, adv. -- Tempt"ing*ness, n.
• CAJOLE
  To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle. I am not about to cajole or flatter you into a reception of my views. F. W. Robertson. Syn. -- To flatter; wheedle; delude; coax; entrap. (more info) hence, to amuse with idle talk, to flatter,
• SMEARED
  Having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as, the smeared dagger moth .
• BESMEARER
  One that besmears.
• UNDECEIVE
  To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.
• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• FLATTERY
  The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
• DELUDER
  One who deludes; a deceiver; an impostor.
• GUIDEBOOK
  A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.
• INVEIGLE
  To lead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle. Yet have they many baits and guileful spells To inveigle and invite the un unwary sense. Milton. (more info)
• BEGRIME
  To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in. Books falling to pieces and begrimed with dust. Macaulay.
• SPATTER-DOCK
  The common yellow water lily .
• FLATTERINGLY
  With flattery.
• METEMPTOSIS
  The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years,
• EMPLASTER
  See WISEMAN (more info) plaster or salve, fr. Gr.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• ESCHEATOR
  An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.
• CONTEMPTIBLY
  In a contemptible manner.
• CONTEMPTUOUSLY
  In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor.
• OVERTEMPT
  To tempt exceedingly, or beyond the power of resistance. Milton.