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Loricate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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

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

3. To cover with a crust, as a chimical vessel, for resisting fire.

Loricate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An animal covered with bony scales, as crocodiles among reptiles, and the pangolins among mammals.

Loricate [Verb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Covered with a shell or exterior made of plates somewhat like a coat of mail, as in the armadillo.

Loricate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute, a crust, coating, or plates.

Loricated [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Covered or plated over; encrusted.

Loricated [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913