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imbrication|ɪmbrɪˈkeɪʃən|
[n. of action: see imbricate v. and adj.]
†1. ? The dropping of water from roof-tiles. Obs.
1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 68 Robbing the Eyes of their natural Pent-house or Water-table, they expose them bare to imbrications.
†2. (See quots.) Obs.
1656Blount Glossogr., Imbrication, a covering with Tile. 1658Phillips, Imbrication, a..bending like a gutter⁓tile, also a covering with tile.
3. An overlapping as of tiles; a decorative pattern imitative of this.
1713Derham Phys.-Theol. viii. iv. (1752) 370 A well-made tegument, beset with bristles, adorned with neat imbrications. 1831R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 247 Their edges also overlap each other, presenting the appearance of imbrication, to use the language of botanists. 1854Woodward Mollusca ii. 327 Shell..armed in front with rasp-like imbrications. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life 43 The imbrication of the spinous first dorsal fin. |