A decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance)

Usage examples of coating.

The coating of acetylsalicylic acid, which was plain old aspirin, was around the more lethal viscera of the pills.

You will die of a heart attack, the aorta will be closed by a globule of the arteriosclerotic matter coating your veins, at nine-twenty-one PM, exactly one year, nine months and fourteen days from now.

The Babylonians and Assyrians attained to a high degree of proficiency in brickmaking, notably in the manufacture of bricks having a coating of coloured glaze or enamel, which they largely used for wall decoration.

Seth was coating the centerboard with Rust-Oleum so the steel plate gleamed with wet.

Feathers rained upon him, frosting his black hair, coating his wide bare shoulders, tangling in the black curls on his chest.

Of the echinodermes, remarkable for their coating of spines, asteri, sea-stars, pantacrinae, comatules, asterophons, echini, holothuri, etc.

According to the custom of the scryers she daubed the oil into the hollows of her eyepits, coating the scars with concealing blackness.

Breslaw was beaming fatuously, for the process was a new application of old techniques and the coating had been accomplished with relatively no halts or snags.

The top surface of the computer is smooth except for a fisheye lens, a polished glass dome with a purplish optical coating.

It was nearly as thin as spiderweb, and despite a coating of fluoropolymer, almost as invisible.

They are at least once a week to examine the guns and all the iron work of the carriages, and see that they are kept free from rust, and especially the eccentric axles, elevating screws, and pivot-bolts, which must be protected by a mixture of tallow and white-lead, or other similar coating.

She gripped him, struggling to pull him closer, and then suddenly her hips arched, as she thrust herself upon his keenly sensitive horn, and with blinding, earth-shattering clarity, Zarnak felt the burning tip breach her maidenhead, spearing into the depths of her pulsing cunt, her warm blood coating the silver casing of his horn in a scalding, deliciously wet wash of ecstasy.

Face, neck and hands became covered with mixture of lampblack and turpentine, forming a coating as thick as heavy brown paper, and absolutely irremovable by water alone.

Xaefyer lay on his back, eyes closed, arms and legs splayed out, foam coating his lower body, penis flaccid, breathing slowly but steadily.

Their outer coatings were still dull solid colors, and they continued to keep their heads lower than Nashi, Tell, and Ree did.