Loricate | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Lŏr'i-cāte, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. LORICATED; p. pr. & vb. n. LORICATING.] [Lat. loricare, loricatum, to clothe in mail, to cover with plastering, from lorica, a leather cuirass, a corselet of thongs, a plastering, plaster, from lorum, thong.]

Sense 1. To plate over; to spread over, as a plate for defense.

Nature hath loricated the sides of the tympanum in animals with ear-wax. Ray.

Sense 2. To cover with a coating or crust, as a chemical vessel, for resisting fire.

Lōr'i-cate, a.

adjective

a. [Lat. lorica, a coat of mail.] Covered with a shell or hard exterior made of plates somewhat like a coat of mail, as in the armadillo. Dana.

Lōr'i-cate, n.

noun

(Zoöl.) One of an order of reptiles with scale-armor, as the armadillo. Dana.