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n. Zoology A protective external shell or case, as of a rotifer or any of certain other microscopic animals.

n. A cuirass or corselet worn by Roman soldiers.

n. A cuirass, originally of leather, afterward of plates of metal or horn sewed on linen or the like.

n. Lute for protecting vessels from the fire.

n. The protective case or shell of an infusorian or rotifer.

n. A cuirass, originally of leather, afterward of plates of metal or horn sewed on linen or the like.

n. Lute{1} for protecting vessels from the fire.

n. The protective case or shell of an infusorian or rotifer.

n. In Roman antiquity, a cuirass or corselet.

n. In the middle ages, a military garment consisting of a loose jacket of leather upon which rings or small plates of iron were sewed; also, a coat of fence of any kind.

n. In zoology, a case or covering likened to a coat of mail.

n. An old name for a paste or lute with which vessels were coated in order to protect them when very strongly heated.

n. In botany: Same as testa, 2.

n. The silicious covering of the frustules of diatoms.

n. a hard protective sheath (as secreted by certain protoctists, for example)

""Lorica Glosses," or the glosses which accompany a long Latin prayer, really a charm, called "lorica" or "breast-plate," because it was recited thrice a day to protect the person who used it from all possible injury and accident."

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