frock

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A woman's dress.
• noun A long loose outer garment, as that worn by artists and craftspeople; a smock.
• noun A woolen garment formerly worn by sailors; a jersey.
• noun A robe worn by monks, friars, and other clerics; a habit.
• transitive verb To clothe in a frock.
• transitive verb To invest with clerical office.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To supply or cover with a frock; hence, to invest with the privileges of those whose distinctive dress is a frock, as of a monk. See frock, n., 1.
• noun A frog.
• noun A garment with large sleeves worn by monks.
• noun A garment covering the body and worn by either sex.
• noun The principal outer garment of women: a term partly abandoned in recent times for the indistinctive word dress and the word gown, but still retained, particularly in the British islands, for the outer garment, consisting of a bodice or waist and a skirt, worn by children.
• noun Same as frock-coat.
• noun In the British service, the undress regimental coat of the guards, artillery, and royal marines.
• noun A sort of worsted netting worn by sailors, often in lieu of a shirt. Also called a Guernsey frock. Jamieson.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To clothe in a frock.
• transitive verb To make a monk of. Cf. Unfrock.
• noun A loose outer garment; especially, a gown forming a part of European modern costume for women and children; also, a coarse shirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their other clothes; a smock frock.
• noun A coarse gown worn by monks or friars, and supposed to take the place of all, or nearly all, other garments. It has a hood which can be drawn over the head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord.
• noun a body coat for men, usually double-breasted, the skirts not being in one piece with the body, but sewed on so as to be somewhat full.
• noun See in the Vocabulary.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun dialectal A frog.
• noun A dress, a piece of clothing for a female, which consists of a skirt and a cover for the upper body.
• noun An outer garment worn by priests and other clericals, a habit.
• verb To clothe in a frock.
• verb To make a cleric.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a habit worn by clerics
• noun a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice
• verb put a frock on