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Sheathe   /ʃið/   Listen
Sheathe

verb
(past & past part. sheathed; pres. part. sheating)
1.
Cover with a protective sheathing.
2.
Enclose with a sheath.
3.
Plunge or bury (a knife or sword) in flesh.






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"Sheathe" Quotes from Famous Books



... possible in appearance, lest his war-worn guise should shock mamma and frighten baby into convulsions, he obeyed in silence, nay, even with propitiatory smiles and gestures. Ay, lay down your arms and bend the suppliant knee, sheathe your useless sword, and hush to soothing whisper the voice that thundered in command a week agone; hide away with noiseless hand the heavy boot and clinking spur; off with belt and buckle and scratching ...
— Marion's Faith. • Charles King

... fraternity, its principles broad as the continent upon which falls the shadow of our flag. Do you know what that association means? —had you thought of its significance? It means that when brave men sheathe the sword the quarrel's done. It means that peace hath its triumphs no less than war. The world's annals furnish forth no parallel to that association whose guests we are to-night. Men have fought ere this and patched up a peace; but where, in ...
— Volume 12 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... step, Lord Douglas," said she. "Sheathe your sword, George, or if you use it, let be to go hence, and against everyone but your b other. I still have need of your ...
— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - MARY STUART—1587 • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE

... him all the ocean coast, from Michael Mount to Eure, And Gille, my child, shall be his bride, to bind him fast and sure: Let him but kiss the Christian cross, and sheathe the heathen sword, And hold the lands I cannot keep, a fief from Charles his lord." Forth went the pastors of the Church, the Shepherd's work to do, And wrap the golden fleece around the tiger ...
— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton



Words linked to "Sheathe" :   plunge, invaginate, envelop, unsheathe, enclose, cover, wrap, immerse, enfold, enwrap, sheathing



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