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To insert as in a sheath; to sheathe. Hughes.

Sheathed by mistake; wrongly sheathed; sheathed in a wrong place. Shak.

Wheat not bearded. Carew.

To exceed in cheating.

To heat to excess; to superheat. Cowper.

Same as Malacopoda.

Same as Malacopoda.

To blow the recheat. Drayton.

To heat again.

The neurilemma.

A low perennial plant (Frankenia lævis) resembling heath, growing along the seashore in Europe.

A European siluroid fish (Silurus glanis) allied to the cat- fishes. It is the largest fresh-water fish of Europe, sometimes becoming six feet or more in length. See Siluroid.

fe, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard. The dead knight's sword out of his sheath he drew. Spenser.

Having elytra, or wing cases, as a beetle.

Either one of two species of birds composing the genus Chionis, and family Chionidæ, native of the islands of the Antarctic.seas.

To put into a sheath, case, or scabbard; to inclose or cover with, or as with, a sheath or case. The leopard . . . keeps the claws of his fore feet turned up from the ground, and sheathed in the skin of his toes. Grew. 'T is in my breast she sheathes her dagger now. Dryden.

Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath.

One who sheathes.

Same as Sheatfish.

from Sheathe. Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants.