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Sheathe [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. SHEATHE ,

2. To put in a case or scabbard; as, the sheathe a sword or dagger.

3. To inclose or cover with a sheath or case.

4. The leopard-deeps the claws of his fore feet turned up from the ground, and sheathed in the skin of his toes. Grew .

5. 'Tis in my breast she sheathes her dagger now. Dryden .

6. To cover or line; as, to sheathe the bowels with demulcent or mucilaginous substances.

7. To obtund or blunt, as acrimonious or sharp particles.

8. To fit with a sheath.

9. To case or cover with boards or with sheets of copper; as, to sheathe a ship to protect it from the worms.

10. To sheathe the sword , a figurative phrase, to put an end to war or emnity; to make peace. It corresponds to the Indian phrase, to bury the hatchet .

Sheathe [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To put into a sheath, case, or scabbard; to inclose or cover with, or as with, a sheath or case.

2. To fit or furnish, as with a sheath.

3. To case or cover with something which protects, as thin boards, sheets of metal, and the like; as, to sheathe a ship with copper.

4. To obtund or blunt, as acrimonious substances, or sharp particles.

Sheathed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In botany , vaginate; invested by a sheath or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses.

Sheathed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Put in a sheath; inclosed or covered in a case; covered; lined; invested with a membrane.

Sheathed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath.

2. Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate.

Sheathed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Sheathe

Sheather [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who sheathes.