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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. [1913 Webster] The leopard . . . keeps the claws of his fore feet turned up from the ground, and sheathed in the skin of his toes. --Grew. [1913 Webster] 'T is in my breast she sheathes her dagger now. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. To fit or furnish, as with a sheath. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 4. To obtund or blunt, as acrimonious substances, or sharp particles. [R.] --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] To sheathe the sword, to make peace. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sheathed \Sheathed\, a. 1. Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
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