Crossword clues for sheath
sheath
- Protective case
- Blade case
- You might stick a dagger into one
- Tight-fitting dress
- Sword's place
- Sword case
- Kind of dress
- Sword's covering
- Saber casing
- Saber case, e.g
- Dagger case
- Unbelted dress
- Tight dress
- Sword master's case
- Sword cover
- Saber's cover
- Place to store a weapon
- Place for a sword
- Knife covering
- Knife cover
- Holster cousin
- Fencer's case
- Dagger holder
- Close-fitting dress
- Case for a sword
- Cover for a sword
- Scabbard
- Where to bury the hatchet?
- Sword covering
- Safe place for a knife
- Sword go-with
- A dress suitable for formal occasions
- A protective covering for a knife or sword
- An enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part
- Dress style
- Dirk's case
- Closefitting dress
- Mum suppressing passion in tight dress
- Mum hides firearm, covering for Kris?
- Case requires silence about preliminary race
- Knife holder
- See ex-Prime Minister in figure-hugging dress
- Second piece of open country gets protection
- Lead in shoplifting case
- Blade cover
- Johnny Morris finally to meet PM in 1971
- Has the wrong case
- Protective covering
- Sword holder
- Blade holder
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sheath \Sheath\, n. [OE. schethe, AS. sc[=ae][eth], sce['a][eth], sc[=e][eth]; akin to OS. sk[=e][eth]ia, D. scheede, G. scheide, OHG. sceida, Sw. skida, Dan. skede, Icel. skei[eth]ir, pl., and to E. shed, v.t., originally meaning, to separate, to part. See Shed.]
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A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard.
The dead knight's sword out of his sheath he drew.
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Any sheathlike covering, organ, or part. Specifically:
(Bot.) The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a stem or branch, as in grasses.
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(Zo["o]l.) One of the elytra of an insect.
Medullary sheath. (Anat.) See under Medullary.
Primitive sheath. (Anat.) See Neurilemma.
Sheath knife, a knife with a fixed blade, carried in a sheath.
Sheath of Schwann. (Anat.) See Schwann's sheath.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English sceað, scæð, from Proto-Germanic *skaithiz (cognates: Old Saxon scethia, Old Norse skeiðir (plural), Old Frisian skethe, Middle Dutch schede, Dutch schede, Old High German skaida, German scheide "a sheath, scabbard"), according to OED, possibly from root *skei- "divide, split" (see shed (v.)) on notion of a split stick with the sword blade inserted. Meaning "condom" is recorded from 1861; sense of "close-fitting dress or skirt" is attested from 1904.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A scabbard; a holster for a sword. 2 Anything that has a similar shape to a scabbard for a sword that is for the purpose of holding an object that is longer than it is wide; a case. 3 The insulate outer cover of an electrical cable. 4 A tight-fitting dress. 5 (context British English) A condom. 6 The foreskin of certain animals, e.g. dogs and horses. 7 The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a stem or branch, as in grasses. 8 One of the elytra of an insect. vb. To put an object (especially a weapon, in particular, a sword) into its sheath.
WordNet
n. a protective covering for a knife or sword
an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part [syn: case]
a dress suitable for formal occasions [syn: cocktail dress]
Wikipedia
Sheath pronounced as , may refer to:
- Scabbard, a sheath for holding a sword, knife, or other large blade, as well as guns, such as rifles.
- The outer covering of a cable
- Condom, a kind of contraception
- Debye sheath, a layer of a plasma in physics
- Heliosheath, the region of the heliosphere beyond the termination shock
- Koteka, a penis sheath worn by some natives of New Guinea
- Sheath (album), a 2003 techno album by LFO
- Sheath dress, a type of dress
- Kosha, an element in human being makeup according to Hinduist philosophy
- Leaf sheath, the leaf base when it forms a vertical coating surrounding the stem
- Carotid sheath, connective tissue around the neck's vascular compartment
- Myelin sheath, an insulating layer over the axon of a neuron
- Preputial sheath, protective skin around the penis or clitoris
- Clitoral hood
- Penile sheath, the foreskin into which a penis retracts
- Rectus sheath, the laminas around abdominal muscles
- Root sheath, the inner or epidermic coat around the root of a hair follicle
- Tendon sheath, a synovial membrane surrounding a tendon in, for example, the fingers
- Vagina, the internal structure of the female genitalia
Sheath is the third and final studio album by British IDM project LFO, released 22 September 2003 by Warp Records.
The track "Moistly" is featured on the 2012 video game Lumines Electronic Symphony. "Freak" has been featured both in the 2005 film Hard Candy and in the opening credits of 2010 film Enter the Void.
Usage examples of "sheath".
But one thing is clear: atman seeks to realize Brahman, to be united with the Absolute, and it travels in this life on a pilgrimage where it is born and dies, and is born again and dies again, and again, and again, until it manages to shed the sheaths that imprison it here below.
At each end the cell tapers to a point from which the sarcolemma appears to continue as a fine thread, and this, by attaching itself to the inclosing sheath, holds the cell in place.
Attached to the belt by a loop was an ivory-handled flint knife in a rawhide sheath, and suspended from another loop, the lower section of a hollow black aurochs horn, a drinking cup that was a talisman of the Aurochs Hearth.
The axon is like a thin line running down the axis of the interrupted cylinder formed by the myelin sheath.
Jessica felt the cold sheath of the crysknife beneath her bodice, thought of the long chain of Bene Gesserit scheming that had forged another link here.
The overcaptain bolted upright at the table, his blade clearing the sheath, his face twisted in anger.
Syndrome, the breakout contractions were premature, the tentacle sheaths not filled completely with fluid, so the pressure would rupture the membranes.
She strained against Ki, her arms clutching him tightly around his back, while inside, Ki could feel his urgency burgeoning with every surge of her satiny sheath.
I waited until she turned into Frobisher Street before I slipped Chubby the little sheath of notes under the table and we went into the private bar together.
Inside, wrapped in the waterproof sheath of a bamboo culm, was her new travel permit.
As the eland subsided and was still, he laid aside the musket and drew the knife from its sheath on his belt.
I ran easily and sweetly, my T-shirt sticking and unsticking to my sweaty back, my feet cased in Nike Victory 9s that, sprung with argon pockets and flexing sheaths of smart elastomers, could probably have run better by themselves.
LeClaire perfected the process of pocketing self-writing code and embedding it into the mind, protected by a sheath of psionic barriers that would survive riping.
It remained unused, gathering dust while it lay in wait, encased in the old leather of its sheath, until it once again rested in the hand of its rightful owner, the first male child born to the Royal bloodline in 13 or 14 generations.
Then he turned his perusal solely upon his rival, espying no scabbard or pistol, only an empty sheath where a knife should have been.