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Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath.

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

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

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

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

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.

Sheathed.

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.

Sheathed, as in a quiver. "Whose quills stand quivered at his ear." Pope.

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.

Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.

y (Bot.), the lily of the valley. -- Wood lock (Naut.), a piece of wood close fitted and sheathed with copper, in the throating or score of the pintle, to keep the rudder from rising. -- Wood louse (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial isopod Crustacea belonging to Oniscus, Armadillo, and related gen…