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r 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.

To become unsheathed. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

To insert as in a sheath; to sheathe. Hughes.

Sheathed by mistake; wrongly sheathed; sheathed in a wrong place. Shak.

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

Matter for question; business in hand. [Obs.] Sheathed their swords for lack of argument. Shak.

To cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.

Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.

To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword. So soon as ever thou seest him, draw; and as thou drawest, swear horrible. Shak.

Having the radicle of the embryo sheathed by the cotyledon, through which the embryo bursts in germination, as in many monocotyledonous plants.

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

Not sheathed in another leaf.

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

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

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

Sheathed.

fasten the mouth of, so as to prevent biting or eating; hence, figuratively, to bind; to sheathe; to restrain from speech or action. "My dagger muzzled." Shak. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Deut. xxv. 4.

work with the nose, like a swine in the mud. And nuzzling in his flank, the loving swine Sheathed, unaware, the tusk in his soft groin. Shak. He charged through an army of lawyers, sometimes . . . nuzzling like an eel in the mud. Arbuthnot.