Lorica, loricæ, pen prod. Liu.Cicer.A coate of fense: a coate of maile: a brigantine: an habergion.Aeneæ loricæ.Cic.Conserta hamis lorica. Virgil. An habergion fastened wyth thaines.Inuia sagittis lorica, Martial. Micans lorica. Claud. Rigens ex ære lorica.Virg.Auro triplex lorica.Virg. Cum lorica ambulare. Cic. Lorica. Vitru. The coping or head of a wall made to cast off the water. Lorica. Vitruui. In making floures the vpper crust mads of marble beaten, lime, and sande.Sic Ichoeumon luto se loricat aduersus aspidem.Couereth it selfe with a trust of clay or dyrte, fighting againste the secpent Aspis.Lorica estacea. Vitruuius. A cruste or playster mads of shardss.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
lōrīca, ae, f. [id.], a leather cuirass, a corselet of thongs (opp. thorax, a brazen breastplate). I.Lit.: pro lorica malacum capiam pallium, Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 37: lata insignisque lorica, Cic. Mur. 26, 52: ambulat cum lorica, id. Fl. 17, 41: graves loricis, Liv. 5, 38: trilix, Verg. A. 3, 467; 5, 259; Sil. 2, 401: bilix, Verg. A. 12, 376: truncis affixa tropaeis lorica, Juv. 10, 134: cum vix loricam multiplicem conixi umeris ferunt, Quint. 8, 4, 25.—Also of linen: lintea, Suet. Galb. 19.—B.Transf., a defence of any kind. 1. Milit., a breastwork, parapet: turres contabulantur, pinnae loricaeque ex cratibus attexuntur, Caes. B. G. 5, 39: huic vallo loricam pinnasque adjecit, id. ib. 7, 72: loricam vallumque struxere, Tac. H. 4, 37; Curt. 9, 4, 30; Veg. Mil. 4, 28. —2.A fence, hedge, enclosure, App. M. 6, p. 186; Amm. 24, 5, 2.—3.A plastering, plaster: lorica testacea, Vitr. 2, 8; 2, 9: stellionis cubile est in loricis ostiorum, fenestrarumque, Plin. 30, 10, 27, 89.— II.Trop.: libros Mutare loricis, i. e.