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tegument|ˈtɛgjʊmənt|
[ad. L. tegument-um covering, f. teg-ĕre to cover: see -ment. So OF. tegument (13th c. in Godef.).]
Something that serves to cover; a covering, coating, envelope, investment, integument. a. gen. (natural or artificial).
c1440Pallad. on Husb. iv. 20 Ffor sunne and wynde hem make a tegument, Lest they in this be shake, in that to brent. 1658Sir T. Browne Hydriot. iii. 32 Whatever was the solid Tegument, we finde the immediate covering to be a purple peece of silk. 1674Phil. Trans. IX. 205 They have only a few teguments to cover themselves with in the night. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. iii. i. 64 Beds..lying under that upper Stratum, or Tegument of the Earth. c1830Hor. Smith Addr. Mummy xiii, Why should this worthless tegument endure If its undying guest be lost for ever? 1888A. S. Wilson Lyric Hopeless Love cviii. 315 Beneath the tegument of clay.
b. Nat. Hist. and Anat. The natural covering of the body, or of some part or organ, of an animal or plant; a skin, coat, shell, husk, or the like; spec. = tegmen b (Brande Dict. Sci., 1842). Now rare or Obs.; mostly replaced by integument.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. vi. 97 A harder tegument or shell [in the nutmeg], which lyeth under the Mace. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. ix. (1765) 19 Corolla and Calyx, are the Teguments or Covers of the Stamina and Pistillum. 1822J. Imison Sc. & Art I. 250 It [the eye] is composed of three coats, or teguments, one covering the other. 1864Max Müller Sc. Lang. Ser. ii. ii. (1868) 74 If we never find skins except as the teguments of animals. |