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The neurilemma.

Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form.

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

e, 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.

Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.

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

Having short-breath, or quick respiration.

The smew. [Prov. Eng.]

See Snath.

See Tath. [Prov. Eng.]

Not breathed.

Beneath; below; in a lower place; under; as, a channel underneath the soil. Or sullen mole, that runneth underneath. Milton.

Not easy; difficult; hard. [Obs.] Who he was, uneath was to descry. Spenser.