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Imbricate [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

IM'BRICATE

Imbricate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile.

2. In botany, lying over each other, like tiles on roof; parallel, with a strait surface, and lying one over the other; as leaves in the bud.

Imbricate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Imbricated

Imbricate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an imbricated surface.

Imbricated [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile.

2. Lying over each other in regular order, so as to "break joints," like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds of plants and the cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in aestivation.

3. In decorative art: Having scales lapping one over the other, or a representation of such scales; as, an imbricated surface; an imbricated pattern.