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sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four. The sheaf of arrows shook and rattled in the case. Dryden.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, a sheaf or sheaves; resembling a sheaf.

The top sheaf of a stack of grain: (fig.) the crowning or finishing part of a thing.

To tie; to confine by any ligature. They that reap must sheaf and bind. Shak.

United into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat.

A sheaf of grain (wheat, unless otherwise specified).

The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.

To gather and bind into a sheaf or sheaves; hence, to collect. Ashmole.

neral of the zeolite family, a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime, usually occurring in sheaflike aggregations of crystals, also in radiated masses. It is of a white or yellowish color, with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. Called also desmine.

A delicate, hairlike siliceous spicule, found in certain sponges. Trichite sheaf (Zoöl.), one of the small sheaflike fascicles of slender setæ characteristic of certain sponges. See Illust. under Spicule.

ucer. A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought First fruits, the green ear and the yellow sheaf. Milton. The line of yellow light dies fast away. Keble. Yellow atrophy (Med.), a fatal affection of the liver, in which it undergoes fatty degeneration, and becomes rapidly smaller and of a deep yellow tinge. The marked sym…