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Not sheathed in another leaf.

A plant Whose radicle is not inclosed or sheathed by the cotyledons or plumule. Gray.

A covering in front, for ornament or other purpose; an exterior covering or sheathing; as, the facing of an earthen slope, sea wall, etc. , to strengthen it or to protect or adorn the exposed surface.

s he flings. Milton. I flung closer to his breast, As sword that, after battle, flings to sheath. Mrs. Browning. To fling out, to become ugly and intractable; to utter sneers and insinuations.

That part of the body where the girdle is worn. [Obs.] Sheathed, beneath his girdlestead. Chapman.

A cover for the hand, or for the hand and wrist, with a separate sheath for each finder. The latter characteristic distinguishes the glove from the mitten.

The fibrous sheath which covers the phragmacone of the Belemnites.

To cover with plates; to sheathe; as, to implate a ship with iron.

Received into some other thing or part, as a sword into a sheath; invaginated.

To insert as in a sheath; to pr

Sheathed.

A sheath which surrounds the base of the lasso cells in the Siphonophora.

th rounded ends for knitting yarn or threads into a fabric, as in stockings. -- Knitting sheath, a sheath to receive the end of a needle in knitting.

Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.

The thin and scarious projection from the upper end of the sheath of leaf of grass.

e geographical miles. -- Marine metal, an alloy of lead, antimony, and mercury, made for sheathing ships. Mc Elrath. -- Marine soap, cocoanut oil soap; -- so called because, being quite soluble in salt water, it is much used on shipboard. -- Marine store, a store where old canvas, ropes, etc., are bought and sold; a…

transverse section of exogenous wood, which pass from the pith to the bark. -- Medullary sheath (Anat.), the layer of white semifluid substance (myelin), between the primitive sheath and axis cylinder of a medullated nerve fiber.

Furnished with a medulla or marrow, or with a medullary sheath; as, a medullated nerve fiber.

.; also, sometimes, the metals of the earths, as aluminium. -- Muntz metal, an alloy for sheathing and other purposes, consisting of about sixty per cent of copper, and forty of zinc. Sometimes a little lead is added. It is named from the inventor. -- Prince's metal (Old Chem.), an alloy resembling brass, consisting…

, worn to defend it from cold or injury. It differs from a glove in not having a separate sheath for each finger. Chaucer.