coat armor, coat armour (kotarmor)

[Early mod. E. cote - armor, -armour, armor; a surcoat. Alle and every man Had on him throwen a vesture Whiche that men clepen a cote armure Embrowded wonderlyche ryche. cards of each suit were the king, knight, and groom or knave; in the old German pack they were the king, a high officer ( Ober ), and a low officer ( Unter ). Now, by corruption, court -card. She had in her hand the ace of hearts, methought, and a coat -card. Chapman , May-Day, v. 2. cob Princes may giue a good Poet such conuenient countenaunce and also benefite as are due to an excellent artificer, though they neither ki e nor cokes them (as Cynthia did Endymion), and the discret Poet lookes for no such extraordinary fauours. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie (ed. Arber), p. 36. 2. To persuade by fond pleading or flattery; coatee (kō-te'), n. [ At every lazy corner were groups of great, well-made, six-foot soldiers, in red coatees (for the tunic cannot be enumerated among the causes of the sepoy mutiny). coat he, v. i. See cot he. coati (kō'a-ti), n. [Also cuati (in Spanish writ- ers), quachi (Bomarre, 1775), quasje (Schreber, 1776), quasie ; a native name.] An American plantigrade carnivorous quadruped, of the fam- ily Procyonidæ , subfamily Nasuina , and genus Nasua (which see), inhabiting tropical and A froward child, that must be humoured and coaxed a little till it falls asleep. Goldsmith , Good-natured Man, i. Not yet, however, did Mrs. Bennet give up the point. She talked to Elizabeth again and again; coaxed and threatened her by turns. Jane Austen , Pride and Prejudice, p. 97. Hence-3. To manage or guide carefully; control in a gentle way: as, to coax a horse into a trot. II. in trans. To use cajolery or gentle plead ing. I coax ! I wheedle! I'm above it. Farquhar , Recruiting Officer. racoons, has an elongated body, a long tail, and an attenuated and very flexible snout, whence the generic name Nasua. In general aspect the coatis resemble the ring-tailed ba aris, and still more some of the old-world ichneumons or Viverridæ, to which family these animals were formerly referred. There are two distinct species of coatis or coati mon dis, the synonymy of which has been almost inextricably confused, nearly all the names which have been given to one having been also applied to the other. One is the red, ring-tailed, or Brazilian coati, Vi verra nasua of Linnæus, now known as Nasua rufa, also Red Coati ( Nasua rufa ). formerly as N. vulpecula, N. quasje, N. fusc a, N. social is, N: solitaria, etc., of various writers, which is the southern form, ranging over the greater part of South America. The other is the brown or Mexican coati, Viverra naric a of Linnæus, now called Nasua naric a, ranging from the isthmus of Panama through Central America and the warmer parts of Mexico. coatimondi, coatimundi (kō"a-ti-mon'di, -mun'di), n. [A native name, said to be as coati. coating (kō'ting), n. [Verbal n. of coat2 , v.] 1. A covering; any substance spread over a surface for protection or ornamentation: as, a coating of plaster or tin-foil.-2. Cloth for coats: as, an a ortment of coatings . coat-link (kōt'lingk), n . A link having a pair of buttons attached to it, or a loop and button, Chaucer , House of Fame, 1. 3233. used for fastening a coat over the breast. Coat- IMG:content-0699.png:[blocks in formation] The coate armor which he [Sir William Petty] chose and all ways depicted on his coach, ., was a mariner's compa , the style pointing to the polar star, the crest a beehive. Evelyn, To Mr. Wotton. coat-cardt (kōt'kärd), n. [Early mod. E. also coate-card, cote- card , also coated - card (now court card, in simulation of court , with allusion to the king and queen); coat2 (with ref. to the figured coats or dre es of the characters on the cards so called) + card1 . Cf. D. jas - kaart , a trump-card, a pack of 52 cards, jas , a coat, knave of trumps, + kaart = E. card1 .] A playing-card which has a figure on it; the king, links were much in fashion about 1860, busine coats being made so as barely to meet acro the breast. coat-money (kōt'muni), n. An exaction lev- ied by Charles I. on the pretext of providing clothing for the army. Also called coat . coaxt, cokes2t (kōks), n. [Origin obscure.] A simpleton; gull; dupe; fool. Why, we will make a cokes of this wise master; We will, my mistre , an absolute fine cokes . B. Jonson, The Devil is an A , ii. 2. You are a brainle coax , a toy, a fop. Beau , and Fl . , Wit at several Weapons, iii. 1. That you may know I am not, as they say, an animal, which is, as they say, a kind of cokes , which is, as the learned term it, an a , a dolt, a noddy. Ford , Lover's Melancholy, iv. 3. coax (kōks), v . [Formerly spelled cokes ; coax , cokes2 , n ., a fool. Cf. fool , v.] I. trans. 11. To fondle; care ; flatter; fool with flattery or care es. IMG:content-0700.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0701.jpg:[graphic]