a. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to hear. ] Same as Acroamatic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Aëro- + boat. ] A form of hydro-aëroplane; a flying boat. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + float. ] 1. Borne on the water; floating; on board ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

On such a full sea are we now afloat. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Covered with water bearing floating articles; flooded; as, the decks are afloat. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. Shortened forms of Alcoholate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. benzoate. ] (Chem.) A salt formed by the union of benzoic acid with any salifiable base. [ 1913 Webster ]

A male goat. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A clergyman; -- familiarly so called, as a soldier is sometimes called a redcoat or a bluecoat. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To dry (herrings) in smoke. See Blote. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bloated; p. pr. & vb. n. Bloating. ] [ Cf. Icel. blotna to become soft, blautr soft, wet, Sw. blöt soft, blöta to soak; akin to G. bloss bare, and AS. bleát wretched; or perh. fr. root of Eng. 5th blow. Cf. Blote. ] 1. To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To inflate; to puff up; to make vain. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bloated. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being bloated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Bloat, Blote. ] The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; -- called also bloat herring. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One dressed in blue, as a soldier, a sailor, a beadle, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A singing bird of northern Europe and Asia (Cyanecula Suecica), related to the nightingales; -- called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. boot, bat, AS. bāt; akin to Icel. bātr, Sw. båt, Dan. baad, D. & G. boot. Cf. Bateau. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Different kinds of boats have different names; as, canoe, yawl, wherry, pinnace, punt, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Boat is much used either adjectively or in combination; as, boat builder or boatbuilder; boat building or boatbuilding; boat hook or boathook; boathouse; boat keeper or boatkeeper; boat load; boat race; boat racing; boat rowing; boat song; boatlike; boat-shaped. [ 1913 Webster ]

Advice boat. See under Advice. --
Boat hook (Naut.), an iron hook with a point on the back, fixed to a long pole, to pull or push a boat, raft, log, etc. Totten. --
Boat rope, a rope for fastening a boat; -- usually called a painter. --
In the same boat, in the same situation or predicament. [ Colloq. ] F. W. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Boated; p. pr. & vb. n. Boating. ] 1. To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To place in a boat; as, to boat oars. [ 1913 Webster ]

To boat the oars. See under Oar. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To go or row in a boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

I boated over, ran my craft aground. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Such as can be transported in a boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Navigable for boats, or small river craft. [ 1913 Webster ]

The boatable waters of the Alleghany. J. Morse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Conveyance by boat; also, a charge for such conveyance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) 1. A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A perching bird of India, of the genus Eurylaimus. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a little boat. Called also boat fly, boat insect, boatman, and water boatman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Boatfuls. The quantity or amount that fills a boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house for sheltering boats. [ 1913 Webster ]

Half the latticed boathouse hides. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. boatus, fr. boare to roar. ] A crying out; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The guns were heard . . . about a hundred Italian miles, in long boations. Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Boatmen 1. A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

As late the boatman hies him home. Percival. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A boat bug. See Boat bug. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art of managing a boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) See Cymbiform. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) (a) A marine gastropod of the genus Crepidula. The species are numerous. It is so named from its form and interior deck. (b) A marine univalve shell of the genus Cymba. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A boatman. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Boat + swain. ] 1. (Naut.) An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) The jager gull. (b) The tropic bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

Boatswain's mate, an assistant of the boatswain. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Boatwomen A woman who manages a boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line.
Syn. -- bob, bobber, cork. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ From bum the buttocks, on account of its clumsy form; or fr. D. bun a box for holding fish in a boat. ] (Naut.) A clumsy boat, used for conveying provisions, fruit, etc., for sale, to vessels lying in port or off shore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of caproic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A small sailboat, with a single mast placed as far forward as possible, carring a sail extended by a gaff and long boom. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Chin. chop sort, quality. ] A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels. [ China ] S. W. Williams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. cote, F. cotte, petticoat, cotte d'armes 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. kot, hut, E. cot. Cf. Cot a hut. ] 1. An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let each
His adamantine coat gird well. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A petticoat. [ Obs. ] “A child in coats.” Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men of his coat should be minding their prayers. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

She was sought by spirits of richest coat. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An external covering like a garment, as fur, skin, wool, husk, or bark; as, the horses coats were sleek. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fruit of all kinds, in coat
Rough or smooth rined, or bearded husk, or shell. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Same as Coat of arms. See below. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hark, countrymen! either renew the fight,
Or tear the lions out of England's coat. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A coat card. See below. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

Coat armor. See under Armor. --
Coat of arms (Her.), 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 (Naut.), a piece of canvas nailed around a mast, where it passes through the deck, to prevent water from getting below. --
Sail coat (Naut.), a canvas cover laced over furled sails, and the like, to keep them dry and clean. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Coated; p. pr. & vb. n. Coating. ] 1. To cover with a coat or outer garment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cover with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a jar with tin foil; to coat a ceiling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a dress that is tailored like a coat and buttons up the front. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. covered with an outer layer or film; as, sugar-coated pills. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. covered with a shiny coating by applying e.g. beaten egg or a sugar or gelatin mixture; -- of foods. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. (Photog.) coated on the side opposite the emulsion with a substance to absorb light; -- of film. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A coat with short flaps. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the native name: cf. F. coati. ] (Zool.) A mammal of tropical America of the genus Nasua, allied to the raccoon, having a ringed tail but with a longer body, tail, and nose; -- called also coati mondi and coati mundi.
Syn. -- coati, coati-mondi, coati-mundi, coon cat, Nasua narica. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The red coati (Nasua socialis), called also coati mondi, inhabits Mexico and Central America. The brown coati (Nasua narica) is found in Surinam and Brazil. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as coati.
Syn. -- coati, coon cat, Nasua narica. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A coat or covering; a layer of any substance, as a cover or protection; as, the coating of a retort or vial. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Cloth for coats; as, an assortment of coatings. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not wearing a coat; also, not possessing a coat. [ 1913 Webster ]