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
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.
Sheathing(p. pr. & a.) Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants.
Words within sheath