lorica

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

A cuirass or corselet worn by Roman soldiers.

In Roman antiquity, a cuirass or corselet.

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.

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

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

In botany: Same as testa, 2.

The silicious covering of the frustules of diatoms.

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

Lute{1} for protecting vessels from the fire.