| 释义 |
sheathless, a.|ˈʃiːθlɪs|
[f. sheath1 + -less.]
1. Of a sword, etc.: Not encased in a sheath.
1717Eusden Ovid's Met. iv. Pyramus & Thisbe 142 She..saw his sheathless sword. 1816Byron Parisina x. 12 A thousand swords had sheathless shone. 1829Scott Anne of G. xiv, Francis took up his sheathless sword.
2. Nat. Hist. Having no sheath.
1854Woodward Mollusca ii. 192 Tentacles laminated, non-retractile, sheathless. 1910D. W. Thompson tr. Aristotle's Hist. Anim. I. 5 Some are coleopterous or sheath-winged,..others are sheathless. |