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rly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument. The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles. Trench.

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

The act of unsheathing.

Not sheathed in another leaf.

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

An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen. [Obs.] Hayward.

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.

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.

the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl. Milton. The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks. 2 Macc. xiv. 14.

men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles Matt. vii. 16. Gather us from among the heathen. Ps. cvi. 47.

e of a non-Jewish nation; one neither a Jew nor a Christian; a worshiper of false gods; a heathen.

Heathenish; pagan.

Paganism; heathenism. [Obs.] Hooker.

To live like a gentile or heathen. [Obs.] Milton.

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.

ciscan, and Friar. -- Gray hen (Zoöl.), the female of the blackcock or black grouse. See Heath grouse. -- Gray mill or millet (Bot.), a name of several plants of the genus Lithospermum; gromwell. -- Gray mullet (Zoöl.) any one of the numerous species of the genus Mugil, or family Mugilidæ, found both in the Old Worl…

Heath. [Prov. Eng.] Audrey. As merry as a grig Etym: [etymology uncertain], a saying supposed by some to be a corruption of "As merry as a Greek; " by others, to be an allusion to the cricket.

The fibrous sheath which covers the phragmacone of the Belemnites.

Heather; heath. [Obs.] Burton.