Cassock: Definition and part of speech

Cassock

  1. n. A garment resembling a long frock coat worn by the clergy of certain churches when officiating, and by others as the usually outer garment.
  2. n. A long outer garment formerly worn by men and women, as well as by soldiers as part of their uniform.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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