Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Muricatus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

MURICA'TUS and MURIC'IUS. Armed or formed with sharp projections, like the point of the murex. Plin. H. N. xx. 99. Auson. Ep. ix. 4.