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's capsule, a membranous envelope, entering the liver along with the portal vessels and insheathing the latter in their course through the organ. -- Suprarenal capsule, an organ of unknown function, above or in front of each kidney.

A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.

A knife carried in a sheath or case. Addison.

The anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania.

The soft naked sheath at the base of the beak of birds of prey, parrots, and some other birds. See Beak.

Having wings covered with a case or sheath; belonging to the Coleoptera.

A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle. Gray.

mposition metal, an alloy resembling brass, which is sometimes used instead of copper for sheathing vessels; -- also called Muntz metal and yellow metal. -- Composition of proportion (Math.), an arrangement of four proportionals so that the sum of the arrangement of four proportionals so that the sum of the third and…

A curved sheath or breasting for a revolving cylinder or roll.

To cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.

Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.

A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger.

To pull from a sheath, as a sword. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. Ex. xv. 9.

. They have a large electrical organ and are able to give powerful shocks; -- called also sheathfish. -- Electric clock. See under Clock, and see Electro-chronograph. -- Electric current, a current or stream of electricity traversing a closed circuit formed of conducting substances, or passing by means of conductors…

To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset. A knight her met in mighty arms embossed. Spenser.

Wrapped up within a leaf or sheath.

Having the radicle of the embryo sheathed by the cotyledon, through which the embryo bursts in germination, as in many monocotyledonous plants.

The connective tissue framework and sheath of a nerve which bind together the nerve bundles, each of which has its own special sheath, or perineurium.

Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated; as, an evaginate membrane.

The act of unsheathing.