coast lander (kostlander)

[ The great invasion of Egypt by these islanders and coast landers , which is an important factor in the cla ification of the different races. Anthrop. Inst. Jour., XVI. 372. Spenser , Daphnaïda, 1. 39. coast-line (kōst'lin), n. My lord is coasted one way; My father, though his hurts forbade his travel, Hath took another. Some were coming up the hill, others wheeling about and skimming away through the bright air, the ups and downs forming a perfect line of revolution. S. Judd , Margaret, i. 17. IMG:content-0697.png:[blocks in formation] It will not be ami , if, in private, you keep good your acquaintance with Crites, or some other of his poor coat. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iii. 1. It becomes not your lordships coat To take so many lives away. Robin Hood and the Bishop of Here ford (Child's Ballads, [V. 295). 7. The external natural covering of an animal, as hair, fur, wool, etc.-8. A thin layer of a substance covering a surface; a coating: as, a coat of paint, pitch, or varnish; a coat of tin foil. There are many petrifications in it [a curious grotto], made by the dropping of the water, and at the end of it there is a table cut out in the rock, which has received a coat from the dropping of the water like rock work, and has a very beautiful effect. Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 264. 9. One of a number of concentric layers: as, the coats of an onion. Abercrombie.-10. In an at., a tunic or membranous covering of some part or organ: as, the coats of the eye.-11. Naut., a piece of tarred or painted canvas fitted about the masts at the partners, about the rudder casing, and around the pumps where they pa through the upper deck, to keep the water from mole-rat, Bathyergus maritimus. coast-waiter (kōst'water), n. In Great Britain, an officer of the customs who superintends card. Here's a trick of discarded cards of us; we were ranked with coats as long as old master lived. Middle ton, Mas singer, and Rowley , Olde Law, iii. 1. IMG:content-0698.png:[blocks in formation] I observed his coate at the tail of his coach: he gives the arms of England, Scotland, and France, quartered upon some other fields. Pepys , Diary, I. 406. 14. Same as coat - money .-15. A coat of mail. Such a stroke hym dalt ther vppon hys cote , Ne had the hauberke smal mail be, god wote, Als hys brest of stile [steel], ille hym had come sure. Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4218. Buffy coat. See bufy . - Canting coat. See canting. - Coat or cote and conduct, clothing and travel. Hence - Coat-and-conduct money, in Eng . hist ., a tax or imposi tion laid upon the counties for defraying the expense of clothing the troops levied and their traveling expenses. Coat of arms, in her.: (a) A complete achievement. (b) A surcoat or tabard embroidered with armorial bearings, such as in modern times is worn oily by a herald of arms on rare ceremonial occasions. It is a survival of the medieval surcoat (which see). Coat of defense. Same as coat of fence. Coat of fence, any body-garment used as defensive armor; specifically, a garment of textile material quilted and stuffed, or having plates or rings of metal sewed upon it or between the folds; a a gambeson or brigandine. The term coat of fence is more accurately used for a garment of this kind than for the hauberk of mail or the plate-armor that succeeded it. See cut under brigandine. Coat of mail. (a) A hauberk. (b) In a more general sense, any defensive garment for the body, quilted with small plates, rings, or scales of iron. (See gam beson and broigne.) The use of the term to denote plate armor is erroneous. - Coat of plates, a name given to the suit of armor made of splints. See splint and plate armor. Hole in one's coat. See holel. - Rough coat, in plastering, the first coat spread on lathing.Roughing-in coat, in plas tering, the first coat applied directly upon masonry in three-coat plastering. Also Coat of Mail, western Europe; 13th century. (From Viollet-leDict. du Mobilier fran çais.") called roughing-up coat. See scratch - coat. - To turn or change one's coat, to be a turncoat; turn from one party or opinion to another. He [Marquis Spinola] hath now changed his Coat , and taken up his old Commi ion again from Don Philippo, whereas during that Expedition he called himself Cesar's Servant. Howell, Letters, I. ii. 14. coat2 (kōt), v. t. [ He is coated and booted for it. B. Jonson, Discoveries. Fringing-reefs sometimes coat , and thus protect the foundations of islands, which have been worn down by the surf to the level of the sea. Darwin , Coral Reefs, p. 78. 2. To overspread with a coating or layer of another substance: as, to coat something with wax or tin-foil.