1. (v. t.) To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute, a crust, coating, or plates.
2. (v.) Covered with a shell or exterior made of plates somewhat like a coat of mail, as in the armadillo.
3. (n.) An animal covered with bony scales, as crocodiles among reptiles, and the pangolins among mammals.
Thesaurus Entries
armed cap-a-pie, armor-plated, cased, ceiled, cloaked, clouded, coated, coped, covered, covert, cowled, curtained, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled, encased, enveloped, enwrapped, filmed, floored, hooded, housed, in armor, in complete steel, in harness, ironclad, loricate, loricated, mailclad, mailed, mantled, masked, muffled, obscured, occulted, packaged, panoplied, paved, roofed-in, screened, scummed, sheathed, shelled, shielded, shrouded, swathed, tented, under cover, veiled, walled, walled-in, wrapped
