Word Finder - sheathing

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To put (something such as a knife or sword) into a sheath.

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To encase (something) with a protective covering.

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Of an animal: to draw back or retract (a body part) into the body, such as claws into a paw.

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To thrust (a sharp object like a sword, a claw, or a tusk) into something.

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To abandon or cease (animosity, etc.)

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To provide (a sword, etc.) with a sheath.

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To relieve the harsh or painful effect of (a drug, a poison, etc.).

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Something that wraps around or surrounds something, as a sheath encases its blade.

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When the sheathing was on it suddenly looked like a real house: you could see where the outer walls would be even if they still needed the siding and trim added.

Sheathing his dagger, he issued a sharp order to the girl.

The insulation is again tested, and if no fault is discovered the served core is passed through the sheathing machine, and the iron sheath and the outer covering are laid on.

It is a well-ascertained fact that the insulator, gutta-percha, is, when kept under water, practically imperishable, so that it is only the original strength of the sheathing wires and the deterioration allowable in them that have to be considered.

The leaf has a broadly sheathing base succeeded by a short stalk bearing the pitcher, which represents a much enlarged midrib with a winglike lamina.

The monocotyledons, one of the primary divisions of angiosperms, typically possess large Monocoty- leaves with broad Iedonous sheathing bases containType.

The leaves are three or four in number, flat, lanceolate, erect and sheathing; and there is no stem.

In time it became a common practice to cover them with a thin sheathing or plating of iron, in order to add to their life; this expedient caused more wear on the wooden rollers of the wagons, and, apparently towards the middle of the 18th century, led to the introduction of iron wheels, the use of which is recorded on a wooden railway near Bath in 1734.

But the iron sheathing was not strong enough to resist buckling under the passage of the loaded wagons, and to remedy this defect the plan, was tried of making the rails wholly of iron.

Section Of Bronze Sheathing From Gates Of Shalmaneser Ii.

It is a strong grass, growing to a height of from 4 to 8 or even 16 ft.; the leaves are sheathing, solitary, and about 2 in.

The water should, however, be so used as not to run down into the sheathing bases of the leaves.

The sheathing or stipulary portion is frequently wanting.

By longitudinal segmentation we have a leaf formed consisting of sheath, stalk and blade; or one or other of these may be absent, and thus stalked, sessile, sheathing, &c., leaves are produced.

Metal sheathing shall be dealt with, by allowing in full the cost of a weight equal to the gross weight of metal sheathing stripped off, minus the proceeds of the old metal.

The large demand for copper to be used in sheathing ships ceased on the introduction of iron in shipbuilding because of the difficulty of coating iron with an impervious layer of copper; but the consumption in the manufacture of electric apparatus and for electric conductors has far more than compensated.

In the same year the admiralty consulted the Royal Society as to a means of preserving the copper sheathing of ships from corrosion and keeping it smooth, and he suggested that the copper would be preserved if it were rendered negatively electrical, as would be done by fixing "protectors" of zinc to the sheeting.

In the three genera, Ophioglossum, Botrychium and Helminthostachys, there is an underground rhizome, from which one leaf or a few leaves with sheathing bases are produced annually; the roots arise in more or less definite relation to the insertion of the leaves.

A sheathing bract enclosing one or several flowers is called a spathe.

These sclerotic plaques are the decay in the myelin sheathing of the myelinated axons from distinct regions within the CNS.

Copper pipe may need to be sleeved, which brings an extra environmental cost of the plastic sheathing.

However, he was foiled in his attempt owing to the ship's copper sheathing.

Ideally, offshore structures should be fully protected from both corrosion and marine biofouling right down to the sea bed by copper-nickel sheathing.

It is used for all major GRP work such as boat building, mold making, timber sheathing and also some casting projects.

Now you have your " gross " opening cut through your roof sheathing.

Pope Gregory the Great credited St. Michael with ending the plague in Italy when he saw Michael sheathing a flaming sword.

However, he was foiled in his attempt owing to the ship 's copper sheathing.

In other cultures, the first sheathing is part of the process of coming of age from youth to adult.

The plant forms a rosette of linear sheathing leaves, from which columnar spikes 1 to 2 feet high, bearing bright yellow starry flowers in a dense raceme, and having the aspect of a miniature Eremurus, issue.

C. i. lineata is a fine variety, with leaves much broader than those of the type, and sometimes 4 inches across, colored with reddish-pink at the sheathing base.

Use the NM cable stripper to remove about six inches of sheathing from the ends of each cable.