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Same as Lory.

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

A suborder of edentates, covered with bony plates, including the armadillos.

To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute, a crust, coating, or plates.

The act of loricating; the protecting substance put on; a covering of scales or plates.

Any one numerous species of small brush-tongued parrots or lories, found mostly in Australia, New Guinea and the adjacent islands, with some forms in the East Indies. They are arboreal in their habits and feed largely upon the honey of flowers. They belong to Trichoglossus, Loriculus, and several allied genera.…

A maker of bits, spurs, and metal mounting for bridles and saddles; hence, a saddler. [Obs.] Holinshed.

Instructive discourse. [Obs.] Spenser.

The golden oriole of Europe. See Oriole.

ey have long, slender limbs and large eyes, and are arboreal in their habits. The slender loris (S. gracilis), of Ceylon, in one of the best known species. [Written also lori.]

The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate.

Bachelorhood; also, a manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors. W. Irving.

A compound consisting of two atoms of chlorine with one or more atoms of another element; -- called also dichloride. Bichloride of mercury, mercuric chloride; -- sometimes called corrosive sublimate.

not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat. Caloric expands all bodies. Henry.

A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat nesessary to life, that is, the animal heat.

A tube or duct for conducting heat; a caliduct.

The unit of heat according to the Frensc standard; the amount of heat requires to raise the temperature of one kilogram (sometimes, one gram) of water one degree centigrade, or from 0Foot pound.

See Calorificient.

An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes.

See Calorificient.