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ensheath(e, v.|ɛnˈʃiːθ, -ð|
Also 7 insheath.
[f. en-1 + sheath n., sheathe v.]
trans. To enclose in, or as in, a sheath.
1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 50 My throat..hath quite swallow'd vp and ensheath'd my tongue. 1737Ozell Rabelais iii. xxxiii. III. 39 The velvet scabbard that insheatheth it. 1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 8/2 By the triple partition of its tendon, it ensheaths the lumbar muscles. 1860Ld. Lytton Lucile ii. vi. §9 In the young heart..A love large as life, deep and changeless as death, Lay ensheathed.
Hence enˈsheathing ppl. a.
1877Kinglake Crimea VI. vi. 317 The ensheathing columns were roughly handled. |