sheathe

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “Sheath your Dagger: / Be angry when you will, it ſhall haue ſcope: […]”

2. fiil To encase (something) with a protective covering.

   “A chearful heart does good like a medicine, but envy corrodes like a poiſon; it is ſo ſharp, that it cuts the body which ſheathes it.”

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

   “So when the gen'rous Lyon has in ſight / His equal match, he rouſes for the fight; / But when his foe lyes proſtrate on the plain, / He ſheaths his paws, uncurls his angry mane; / And, plea'd with bloudleſs honours of the day, / Walks over, and diſdains th' inglorious Prey, […]”

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

   “And nuzzling in his flank, the loving swine / Sheathed unaware the tusk in his soft groin.”

5. fiil To abandon or cease (animosity, etc.)

   “Let him die, but firſt ſheth your impatience, throw cold water on your collor, […]”

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

   “Nathaniels coate ſir was not fully made, / And Gabrels pumpes were all vnpinkt i'th heele: / There was no Linke to colour Peters hat, / And Walters dagger was not come from ſheathing: […]”

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

   “He concludes this Diſſertation, by endeavouring to explain the Manner of its [olive oil's] operating, which he attributes to its fat inviſcating Nature, whereby it ſheathes the Spicula of the Poiſon.”