Word Meanings - INSHEATHE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To insert as in a sheath; to sheathe. Hughes.

Related words: (words related to INSHEATHE)

• SHEATHLESS
  Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.
• INSERT
  To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to insert a letter, word, or passage in a composition; to insert an advertisement in a newspaper. These
• SHEATHED
  Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate. (more info) 1. Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath.
• INSERTING
  1. A setting in. 2. Something inserted or set in, as lace, etc., in garments.
• SHEATHY
  Forming or resembling a sheath or case. Sir T. Browne.
• INSERTED
  Situated upon, attached to, or growing out of, some part; -- said especially of the parts of the flower; as, the calyx, corolla, and stamens of many flowers are inserted upon the receptacle. Gray.
• SHEATH-WINGED
  Having elytra, or wing cases, as a beetle.
• SHEATHFISH
  See SHEATFISH
• INSERTION
  The point or part by which a muscle or tendon is attached to the part to be moved; -- in contradistinction to its origin. Epigynous insertion , the insertion of stamens upon the ovary. -- Hypogynous insertion , insertion beneath the ovary. (more
• SHEATHER
  One who sheathes.
• SHEATHE
  Etym: 1. To put into a sheath, case, or scabbard; to inclose or cover with, or as with, a sheath or case. The leopard . . . keeps the claws of his fore feet turned up from the ground, and sheathed in the skin of his toes. Grew. 'T is in my breast
• SHEATHING
  from Sheathe. Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants.
• SHEATHBILL
  Either one of two species of birds composing the genus Chionis, and family Chionidæ, native of the islands of the Antarctic.seas. Note: They are related to the gulls and the plovers, but more nearly to the latter. The base of the bill is covered
• SHEATH
  OS. skeedhia, D. scheede, G. scheide, OHG. sceida, Sw. skida, Dan. skede, Icel. skeiedhir, pl., and to E. shed, v.t., originally 1. A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard.
• UNSHEATHE
  To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war.
• REINSERT
  To insert again.
• INSHEATHE
  To insert as in a sheath; to sheathe. Hughes.
• MISSHEATHED
  Sheathed by mistake; wrongly sheathed; sheathed in a wrong place. Shak.
• DISSHEATHE
  To become unsheathed. Sir W. Raleigh.
• REINSERTION
  The act of reinserting.
• SCHWANN'S SHEATH
  The neurilemma.