Crossword clues for loricate
loricate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loricate \Lor"i*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Loricated; p. pr. & vb. n. Loricating.] [L. loricatus, p. p. of loricare to clothe in mail, to cover with plastering, fr. lorica a leather cuirass, a plastering, fr. lorum thong.] To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute[1], a crust, coating, or plates.
Loricate \Lor"i*cate\, a. [See Loricate, v.] Covered with a shell or exterior made of plates somewhat like a coat of mail, as in the armadillo.
Loricate \Lor"i*cate\, n. (Zo["o]l.) An animal covered with bony scales, as crocodiles among reptiles, and the pangolins among mammals.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. (lb en transitive) To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute, a crust, coating, or plates. Etymology 2
1 (lb en microbiology) Possessing an enclosing shell or test. 2 (lb en zoology) Of or pertaining to the (taxlink Loricata genus noshow=1), a group of rotifers. n. (lb en zoology) Any animal covered with bony scales, such as the crocodile or pangolin.
Usage examples of "loricate".
Then one of the portals was swung half open and they were confronted by a gap-toothed, one-eyed giant of a man, wearing a well-oiled tunic of loricated armor and a brass-and-leather helm, with a huge, spiked ax on his shoulder.
Two or three went in loricated jerkins, one in a cuirass of boiled leather, another in an old, threadbare brigandine.
He was an oldster, he had white hair and wrinkles even, but he was a hard-ass, that was clear, wearing a loricated armor, armor made of curved plates that overlapped like the carapace of a centipede.
They were in full armor, loricated plate and barbute helmets, and armed with short boarding pikes.
The loricated legionnaire armor was made of overlapping steel plates, lorica, that were effectively thin steel bands held together by small fittings on the inside.
Gunny was still breathing but he had a gash the size of a forearm in his side, the heavy blow from the orc having smashed the loricated plate in.