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Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.

Forming or resembling a sheath or case. Sir T. Browne.

To heat too much, to overheat; as, to superheat an oven.

An apparatus for superheating steam.

That which resembles a theater in form, use, or the like; a place rising by steps or gradations, like the seats of a theater. Burns. Shade above shade, a woody theater Of stateliest view. Milton.

One of an order of Italian monks, established in 1524, expressly to oppose Reformation, and to raise the tone of piety among Roman Catholics. They hold no property, nor do they beg, but depend on what Providence sends. Their chief employment is preaching and giving religious instruction.

Of or pertaining to a theater; theatrical. [Obs.]

Theatrical. Woods over woods in gay, theatric pride. Goldsmith.

Of or pertaining to a theater, or to the scenic representations; resembling the manner of dramatic performers; histrionic; hence, artificial; as, theatrical performances; theatrical gestures. -- The*at`ri*cal"i*ty, n. -- The*at"ric*al*ly, adv. No meretricious aid whatever has been called in -- no trick, no illusion o…

ic performances; especially, those produced by amateurs. Such fashionable cant terms as `theatricals,' and `musicals,' invented by the flippant Topham, still survive among his confraternity of frivolity. I. Disraeli.

An extensive division of arthropods comprising all those which breathe by tracheæ, as distinguished from Crustacea, which breathe by means of branchiæ.

Breathing by means of tracheæ; of or pertaining to the Tracheata.

To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war.

A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race.

A disease of wheat and other grasses caused by the rust fungus Puccinia graminis; also, the fungus itself.

A small European sawfly (Cephus pygmæus) whose larva does great injury to wheat by boring in the stalks.

A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.

A small European singing bird (Saxicola oenanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat…

Made of wheat; as, wheaten bread. Cowper.

The male of the chaffinch. [Prov. Eng.]