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1. WordNet® 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]

2. 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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3. 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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Thesaurus Results for Sheathed:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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