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▪ I. sheathed, a. Nat. Hist.|ʃiːθd|
[f. sheath1 + -ed2.]
Having or surrounded by a sheath; put in or capable of being withdrawn into a sheath.
1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 16 Mites in Cheese..are sheath'd and crustaceous Animals (as Scarabees and such like Insects are). 1771J. R. Forster Flora Amer. Septentr. 4 Panicum clandestin. Panic grass, sheathed. Pensylva. Kalm. 1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 81 Sheathed Fruit-stalk (spadix), one that is furnished with a sheath. 1835Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. I. viii. 238 The sheathed polype.
Comb.1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. v. §2. 127 Sheathed winged Insects, commonly called Beetles or Scarabs. 1863Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. III. 460 Coleoptera, a word of Greek origin, signifying sheathed-winged animals.
▪ II. sheathed, ppl. a.
(ʃiːðd; techn. ʃiːθt)
[f. sheathe v. + -ed1.]
1. Of a sword, etc.: Put into or encased in a sheath.
1810Scott Lady of L. iii. iii, With sheathed broad-sword in his hand. 1825T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Passion & Princ. v. III. 25 A pair of sheathed scissors. 1848Dickens Dombey xlii, Softly laying his velvet hand, as a cat might have laid its sheathed claws, on Mr. Dombey's arm. 1903Sir A. H. Layard Autobiog. I. iii. 144 His silver-sheathed yataghan.
2. Of a ship: Having the bottom covered with sheathing. [sheathe v. 5.]
1889Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. viii. 105 Passing now to the sheathed ships, the butts of the flat keel plate are double chain riveted. |