Coach"fel`low (?), n. One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence (Fig.), a comrade. Shak.
Coach"man (?), n.; pl. Coachmen (#). 1. A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage.
2. (Zo÷l.) A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean (Dutes auriga); -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin.
Coach"man*ship (?), n. Skill in driving a coach.
Coach"whip` snake" (?). (Zo÷l.) A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States (Masticophis flagelliformis).
&fist; Its long and tapering tail has the scales so arranged and colored as to give it a braided appearance, whence the name.
Co*act" (?), v. t. [L. coactare, intens. fr. cogere, coactum, to force. See Cogent.] To force; to compel; to drive. [Obs.]
The faith and service of Christ ought to be voluntary and not coacted.
Foxe.
Co*act", v. i. [Pref. co- + act, v. i.] To act together; to work in concert; to unite. [Obs.]
But if I tell you how these two did coact.
Shak.
Co*ac"tion (?), n. [L. coactio.] Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling. Sojth.
Co*ac"tive (?), a. [In sense 1, fr. 1st Coact; in sense 2, fr. 2d Coact.] 1. Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.
Any coactive power or the civil kind.
Bp. Warburton.