Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
enclosed in a protective covering;
sometimes used in combination;
- Example: "his sheathed sword"- Example: "the cat's sheathed claws"- Example: "a ship's bottom sheathed in copper"- Example: "copper-sheathed"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sheathe \Sheathe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sheathed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Sheating.] [Written also sheath.]
1. To put into a sheath, case, or scabbard; to inclose or
cover with, or as with, a sheath or case.
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The leopard . . . keeps the claws of his fore feet
turned up from the ground, and sheathed in the skin
of his toes. --Grew.
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'T is in my breast she sheathes her dagger now.
--Dryden.
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2. To fit or furnish, as with a sheath. --Shak.
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3. To case or cover with something which protects, as thin
boards, sheets of metal, and the like; as, to sheathe a
ship with copper.
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4. To obtund or blunt, as acrimonious substances, or sharp
particles. [R.] --Arbuthnot.
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To sheathe the sword, to make peace.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sheathed \Sheathed\, a.
1. Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath.
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2. (Bot.) Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous
tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm
in grasses; vaginate.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sheathed
adj 1: enclosed in a protective covering; sometimes used in
combination; "his sheathed sword"; "the cat's sheathed
claws"; "a ship's bottom sheathed in copper"; "copper-
sheathed" [ant: bare, unsheathed]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "sheathed":
armored, cased, ceiled, cloaked, clouded, coated, coped, covered,
covert, cowled, curtained, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled,
encased, enveloped, enwrapped, filmed, floored, hooded, housed,
loricate, loricated, mantled, masked, muffled, obscured, occulted,
packaged, paved, roofed-in, screened, scummed, shelled, shielded,
shrouded, swathed, tented, under cover, veiled, walled, walled-in,
wrapped