LORICA

(Lat. lorum, a thong.) A cuira or crest of mail, made of leather and set with plates of metal in various forms, chiefly in rings like a chain, used by the Roman soldiers. LORICATES, Lortcata. (L .lorica, a coat qf mail.) The name given by Merrem to an order of reptiles dismembered from the Sauria of Cuvier, and including those species, as the crocodile, which are protected by an armour ofhonv plates. [s. 697]