coaching (koching)

[Verbal n. of coach, v.] 1. The use of coaches as a means of public conveyance; now, especially, driving as an amusement in large coaches drawn by four or six horses. The glories of the old coaching days, the badne of the roads, the signs of the inns. and other. II. 39. 2. The act or practice of giving special instruc tion or training, as for a college examination or an athletic contest. coach-leavest (kōch'lēvz), n. pl. Blinds; something to cover the windows of a coach and conceal the interior. Drive in again, with the coach - leaves put down, At the back gate. B. Jonson, New Inn, ii. 1. coach let (kōch'let), n. [ coach + dim. -let .] A small coach. In my light little coach let I could breathe freer. Carlyle , French Rev., III. i. 8. coach maker (kōch' mā" kér), n . A man who carries on the busine of making coaches, or who is employed in making them; a carriage builder. coachman (kōch'man), n.; pl. coachmen (-men). 1. A man who drives a coach. Be thou my Coach - man , and now Cheek and Ioule With Phœbus Chariot let my Chariot roule. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 4. 2. In ichth., a serranoid fish, Dules auriga: same as charioteer, 3. coachman ship (koch man-ship), nch coach Skill in driving coaches. IMG:content-0679.png:[blocks in formation] man-of-war.-3. [Without the hyphen.] In her pet., a harmle colubrine serpent of the genus Mast i cop his (which see): so called from its long slender form. There are several species, as M. flagelli form is, inhabiting southerly portions of the United States. A coachwhip, a snake much like the common black snake in form, but in color a very dark brown some two thirds being of a light its length, brown, the in other appearance, third to from the tip the of peculiar the tail markings, much like the lash of a whip. Sci. Amer., N. S., LVII. 7. coachwood (kōch'wud), n. The Ceratopetalum apetalum, a large saxifragaceous tree of New South Wales, furnishing a soft, close-grained, fragrant wood valued for cabinet-work. coact (ko-akt'), v. t. [L. coact are, constrain, force, freq. of cōgere, pp. coact us, constrain: see cogent. The L. coact are is the ult. source of E. squat and squash1, q. v.] To compel; force. Speak to him, fellow, speak to him! I'll have none of this coacted, unnatural dumbne in my house. B. Jonson, Epicœne, iii. 2. The inhabitants were coacted to render the city. Sir M. Hale. co-act (kō-akt'), v. i. [ act .] To act together. If I tell how these two did co-act, Shall I not lie in publishing a truth? Shak ., T. and C., v. 2.