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
imbrĭco, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a. [imbrex]. I.To cover with gutter-tiles (postclass.): tegulis interjacentibus imbricarentur, Sid. Ep. 2, 2.—II.To form like a gutter-tile: caementa inter se, Vitr. 2, 8.—In part. perf.: laurus folio per margines imbricato, Plin. 15, 30, 39, 127: ungues simiae, id. 11, 45, 101, 247: vertebrae, id. 11, 1, 1, 1.