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A shrub or tree supposed to be the tamarisk, or perhaps some kind of heath. [Obs.] He shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come. Jer. xvii. 6 (Douay version).

Inflammation of the synovial sheath enveloping a tendon.

of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion. Tentacle sheath (Zoöl.), a sheathlike structure around the base of the tentacles of many mollusks.

A sheath; a case; as, the theca, or cell, of an anther; the theca, or spore case, of a fungus; the theca of the spinal cord.

The generation or genealogy of the gods; that branch of heathen theology which deals with the origin and descent of the deities; also, a poem treating of such genealogies; as, the Theogony of Hesiod.

A kind of divination drawn from the responses of oracles among heathen nations.

and that Eusebian book of evangelic preparation, transmitting our ears through a hoard of heathenish obscenities to receive the gospel. Milton. The scepter of that kingdom continued to be transmitted in the dynasty of Castile. Prescott.

Any ruminant having horns composed of a bony axis covered with a horny sheath; a hollow-horned ruminant.

Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish. Hooker.

To loose from curls, or ringlets; to straighten out, as anything curled or curly. He sheaths his paw, uncurls his angry mane. Dryden.

Affording no harbor or shelter. "Unharbored heaths." [Obs.] Milton.

A sheath; a theca; as, the vagina of the portal vein.

Of or pertaining to a vagina; resembling a vagina, or sheath; thecal; as, a vaginal synovial membrane; the vaginal process of the temporal bone.

Serving to in invest, or sheathe; sheathing. Vaginant leaf (Bot.), a leaf investing the stem or branch by its base, which has the form of a tube.

Invested with, or as if with, a sheath; as, a vaginate stem, or one invested by the tubular base of a leaf.

A tribe of birds comprising the sheathbills.

Having elytra; sheath-winged. [R.]

A little sheath, as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses.

nce, or vote; silent; mute; dumb. I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword. Byron.

your worship a word or two Shak. It is not said by the apostle that God vouchsafed to the heathens the means of salvation. South.