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▪ I. integument, n.|ɪnˈtɛgjʊmənt|
[ad. L. integument-um covering, f. integĕre to cover.]
That with which anything is covered, enclosed, or clothed; a covering, investment, coating. a. In general sense. (Now usually either fig. from, or with humorous allusion to, next sense.)
c1611Chapman Iliad xxii. 446 Many and much in price Were those integuments they wrought t'adorn thy exequies. 1658Phillips, Integument, a covering, a garment to cover with. 1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth i. (1723) 13 This Stratum is still expanded at Top of all; serving, as it were, for a common Integument to the rest. 1827T. Hamilton Cyril Thornton (1845) 99 His nether integuments were of dark plush. 1837–9Hallam Hist. Lit. III. iii. iii. § 99. 84 To throw away those integuments of sense which hide us from ourselves. 1847–8H. Miller First Impr. xi. (1857) 175 Let us..strip the vast landscape here of its upper integuments, coat after coat.
b. spec. The natural covering or investment of the body, or of some part or organ, of an animal or plant; a skin, shell, husk, rind, etc.
1664Evelyn Sylva (1679) 20 The Trees..which are expos'd to the North, with an hard, dark, rougher, and more mossie Integument. 1671Grew Anat. Pl. i. §17 So far common with the Coats of the Bean, as to be like those, an Integument. 1713Addison Guardian No. 102 ⁋7 What the anatomists call one of the Integuments of the body. 1807J. E. Smith Phys. Bot. v. 25 Under the Cellular Integument we find the Bark. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. iii, It had a faculty called Memory, and could be acted-on through the muscular integument by appliance of birch-rods.
▪ II. inˈtegument, v. rare.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To furnish with an integument; to cover, invest.
1883Chamb. Jrnl. 690 His gaunt frame was merely integumented with yellow flesh. |