Definitions for sheath
  • Sheath (n.) - A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard.
  • Sheath (n.) - Any sheathlike covering, organ, or part.
  • Sheath (n.) - The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a stem or branch, as in grasses.
  • Sheath (n.) - One of the elytra of an insect.
  • Sheathe (v. t.) - To put into a sheath, case, or scabbard; to inclose or cover with, or as with, a sheath or case.
  • Sheathe (v. t.) - To fit or furnish, as with a sheath.
  • Sheathe (v. t.) - To case or cover with something which protects, as thin boards, sheets of metal, and the like; as, to sheathe a ship with copper.
  • Sheathe (v. t.) - To obtund or blunt, as acrimonious substances, or sharp particles.
  • Sheathed (a.) - Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath.
  • Sheathed (a.) - Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate.
  • Sheathed (imp. & p. p.) - of Sheathe
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  • Sheathing (p. pr. & a.) - Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants.
  • Sheathing (n.) - That which sheathes.
  • Sheathing (n.) - The casing or covering of a ship's bottom and sides; the materials for such covering; as, copper sheathing.
  • Sheathing (n.) - The first covering of boards on the outside wall of a frame house or on a timber roof; also, the material used for covering; ceiling boards in general.
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