Coatee

A little coat; a short, close coat; a coat with short flaps. Coates'ville, in Indiana , a post-village of Hendricks co., 11 m. E.N.E. of Green castle. Coates'ville, in Pennsylvania , a post-village of Chester co., on the W. branch of Brandy wine Creek, 36 m. W. of Philadelphia. Coa'ti, or Coa'ti-mondi, n. (Zool.) A quadruped of the fam. Urside , bearing some affinity to the racoon, except that the neck and body are longer, the fur is shorter, and the eyes are smaller; but it is more particularly dist in- guished by the elongation of its snout, to which its scientific name nasua refers. By the a ist- ance of this long flexible snout, which is some- what truncated at the end, it roots up the earth, in the manner of a hog, in quest of earth-worms, . It also preys on the smaller quad- rupeds; but it lives more upon trees than upon the ground, and is a destructive enemy of birds, their eggs, and unfledged young. It is equal in size to a large cat; its general color is a IMG:content-0241.png:[graphic] IMG:content-0242.jpg:[ocr errors] cinereous brown; the tail, which is of very considerable length, is annulated with distinct circles of black; the ears are round, like those of a rat, and covered with short hair externally, but internally with long whitish hair; the mouth is large, and the under jaw much shorter than the upper. It is a native of Brazil. Coating, n. A covering; any substance spread over for cover, defence, or protection; as, the coating of a phial. -Cloth for coats; as, a Tweed coating . Coat-link, n. A pair of buttons connected by a link, for holding together the lappels of a coat. Coats'burg, in Illinois, a post-village of Adams co., 17 m. N.E. of Quincy. Coatzacoal'co, in Mexico, a river which, rising in the Sierra Madra, dep. of Oajaca, flows N. between Vera Cruz and Tabasco, and enters the Bay of Coatzacoalco (Caribbean Sea) 130 m. S.E. of Vera Cruz, in Lat. 18° 8' 20'N., Lon. 94° 32′ 50′′. Coax, ( kõks ,) v. a. [From cog or cozen.] To wheedle; to flatter; to soothe; to fawn upon; to appease or persuade by fondling and wheedling. "I coax ! I wheedle! I'm above it." - Farquhar. Coaxa'tion, n . [Lat. coaxare , to croak.] Act of croaking. (R.)