sheathe
suomi-englanti sanakirjasheathe englannista suomeksi
pistää, tunkea, upottaa
panna tuppeen
verhota
sheathe englanniksi
(antonyms)
(RQ:Shakespeare Julius Caesar)
(RQ:Barnes Devil's Charter)
(RQ:John Gay Trivia)
(quote-book)|year=1838|page=69|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=K-g_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA69|oclc=36892655|passage=Be aware of the smiling enemy, that openly sheatheth his weapon, / But mingleth poison in secret with the sacred salt of hospitality.
(quote-book)|year=1865|section=number 190|page=169|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=EH8OAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA169|oclc=156107375|passage=Ke okakla foo le, obon oke-woo. If thy knife cut thee thou sheathest it. N.B.—Meaning thou dost not cast it away.
To encase (something) with a protective covering.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Printed for P. Brown, H. Hill, and S. Payne|year=1765|page=239|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=JfRDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA239|oclc=1065028041|passage=''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.
(quote-book) and Allen and Co,(nb...)|year=1843|volume=I|page=243|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=xPnqvmzhsMcC&pg=PA274|oclc=570257159|passage=When thou sheathest thy glances in thy eyelids, they inflict deadly wounds: what must they be when thou drawest them from their scabbards!
(quote-book)
(RQ:Bellow Humboldt's Gift)
Of an animal: to draw back or retract (a part) into the body, such as claws into a paw.
(RQ:Dryden Hind and Panther)
(quote-book) Translated from the Original French|edition=7th revised and corrected|location=London|publisher=Printed for R. Francklin,(nb...)|year=1750|page=183|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=z3E-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA183|oclc=960914618|passage=We are told, that Dews and the Juices of Flowers are their hummingbirds' Food, which they extract with their little Tongue, whoſe Length exceeds that of their Bill, and ſerves them inſtead of a Trunk, which they contract and ſheathe in their Bill.
To thrust (a sharp object like a sword, a claw, or a tusk) into something.
(RQ:Shakespeare Venus and Adonis)
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-3)
(quote-book), D.D. Dean of the Said Church, in the Year 1511. The Life of Dr. Colet.|editor=&91;(w)&93;|title=The Second Volume of The Phenix: Or, A Revival of Scarce and Valuable Pieces No Where to be Found but in the Closets of the Curious.(nb...)|location=London|publisher=Printed for Morphew|John Morphew(nb...)|year=1708|volume=II|issue=Phenix XVII|section=§ 29|page=25|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=foJdAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA25|oclc=42944820|passage=They who either thro Hatred, or Ambition, or Covetouſneſs, do fight with evil Men, and ſo kill one another, fight not under the Banner of Chriſt, but the Devil; ſhewing ... how difficult for ſuch to be in Charity (without which no Man ſhall ſee God) who ſheathe their Swords in their Brethens Bowels.
(RQ:Shakespeare Merry Wives Q1)
To provide (a sword, etc.) with a sheath.
(RQ:Shakespeare Taming of the Shrew)
To relieve the harsh or painful effect of (a drug, a poison, etc.).
(quote-book)|edition=2nd corrected|location=London|publisher=Printed for (w),(nb...)|year=1716|pages=540 and 541|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bm8FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA540|oclc=519060203|passage=&91;page 540&93; Theſe ſmooth and oily Med'cines act by ''ſheathing'' acrimonious Salts in the Blood, and preventing Inconveniences from 'em; and by ''relaxing'' the Fibres, and hence widening 'em. ... &91;page 541&93; They are convenient in Coughs, from thin and ſharp Rheums, becauſe they ſheathe the Salts that gall the Lungs.
(quote-journal), F.R.S. Concerning the Cure of the Bite of a Viper, Cured by Sallad-oil.|journal=Transactions of the Royal Society|Philosophical Transactions. Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours, of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World|location=London|publisher=Printed for T. Woodward, (...); and C. Davis (...); printers to the (w)|month=December|year=1738|volume=XXXIX|issue=451|page=443|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=g1pOAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA443|oclc=630046584|passage=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.
(quote-book)|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=Printed for R. Manby and H. Shute Cox,(nb...)|year=1747|section=paragraph 73|page=66|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZW9bAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA66|oclc=14304749|passage=(smallcaps) (''Symphytum'') is a principal Vulnerary; it is very mucilaginous and thickening, its clammy Juice ſheathes the Sharpneſs of the Humours; ...