Imbrex, huius imbricis, pe. cor. m. vel f. g. Plin. The tile called gutter tile, or toofe tile beeing balfe crooked.Confregit tegulas, imbricesque.Plaut.
Imbrico, imbricas. pe. cor. imbricare. Pli. To coner with tile: to make like a roofe or crooked tile.Imbricatum conche genus vndara distinctione Plin.Imbricata asperitas. Plin. Lingua leonibus imbricatæ asperitaris. Lyous haue tongues rough like a tile.Cæmenta inter se imbricata. Vitru. Stones laide one vnder another like tiles on a bouse.Imbricati vngues simiæ. Pli. Apes nailes halfe round aboue.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
imbrex, ĭcis, f. (less freq. m., Plin. 17, 14, 24, 114; Arn. 3, 107) [imber], a hollow tile, gutter-tile, pantile (used in roofs for the purpose of leading off the rain; cf.: tegula, operculum, tectorium). I.Lit.: tegulae vocatae, quod tegant aedes; et imbrices quod accipiant imbres, Isid. Orig. 19, 10: meas confregisti imbrices et tegulas, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 24; id. Most. 1, 2, 28; Sisenn. ap. Non. 125, 18; Plin. 36, 22, 44, 159; Verg. G. 4, 296.—II.Transf., of things shaped like a pantile. A.A gutter, a trough for watering beasts, Col. 9, 13, 6; 2, 2, 9; Plin. 17, 14, 24, 114; Cato, R. R. 21, 3.—B.A certain part of a hog (either the ear, sparerib, or womb), Mart. 2, 37, 2.—C. Imbrex narium, the partition (saeptum) in the nose, Arn. 3, 107.—D.A mode of applauding with the hands formed into hollows, invented by Nero, Suet. Ner. 20.