sheathn.1
/ʃiːθ/, U.S. /ʃiθ/ 1. † c. by my sheath, a petty oath. Obsolete.† d. painted sheath: showy exterior. Obsolete. [Compare French ‘Dans vne gaine d'or vn cousteau de plomb: Provencal. A leaden sword in a golden sheath; a godlesse heart in a goodly bodie’ (Cotgrave).]
a. A case or covering into which a blade is thrust when not in use; usually close-fitting and conforming to the shape of the blade, esp. of a sword, dagger, knife, etc. Cf. scabbard n.1
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > [noun] > sheath, generally
sheathc950
scabbard1297
forela1400
pilcher1599
vagine1623
sheaf1697
α.
β. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (MS. Gg.) 888 Tysbe..saw hire wympil & hise emty schede And ek his swerd that hym hath don to dede.c1425 Seven Sages (Percy Soc.) 2584 And drew a knyf out of hire schete.c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 444/2 Schede, or schethe, vagina.14.. Songs & Carols 15th C. (Warton Club) lxi Myn baselard haȝt a schede of red, And a clene loket of led.c1500 Melusine (1895) lix. 359 He putte his swerd vp in the shede.1518 Ortus Vocabulorum Vagina, a shete [1500 a shethe].c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John xviii. 11 Send suord in sceæð..mitte gladium in uaginam.
OE Genesis 1992 Handum brugdon hæleð of scæðum hringmæled sweord.
c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 482 He awende his swurd into ðære sceaðe.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 14675 Abraham..droh hiss swerd off shæþe.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11583 Luken vt of scaþe [c1300 Otho seaþe] sweordes longe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 15797 Þat dint now gif þou nane In-to þe sheþe [Trin. Cambr. sheeþe, Vesp. forel] þou putt þi squorde.
c1450 Mirk's Festial 259 Wypyng his blody swerde, and put hit vp ynto his scheþe.
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. bviv Schort suerdis of scheith smertly thay dreuch.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 266/2 Sheth of a meate knyfe, gayne.
1555 R. Eden Disc. Vyage rounde Worlde in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 224 He had a long dager with a hafte of golde, and the shethe of a fayre kynde of carued woodde.
1605 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 169 A new sheth for my Mr daggar.
1669 S. Sturmy Summary of Penalties & Forfeitures in Mariners Mag. 2 Blades, Handles, Scabbards, Sheaths for Knives.
1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. iii. 125 Your shining Swords within the Sheath restrain.
1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 3 195 The lever and cutting blade separated from the handle and sheath.
1809 J. Roland Amateur of Fencing 11 Before drawing the sword from the sheath.
1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times i. 29 A bronze sword, in a wooden sheath.
b. transferred and figurative.
ΚΠ
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 2864 Were he mowe þe luþer vortiger witie fram þe deþe Þat ich in is Ineward mid suerd make a sseþe.
c1393 G. Chaucer Scogan 39 Ne þynke I neuere of slep to wake myn muse Þat rustyþ in myn schede [Fairf. & Pepys shethe] stylle in pes.
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. iii. 169 O happy dagger This is thy sheath, there rust and let me dye. View more context for this quotation
1615 S. Hieron Three Serm. f. 14 Some one, who is a meere hypocrite, and but as it were the sheath and shadow of a Christian.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. viii. 203 Women..are occasion for many a blade's exchanging a sheath of neat's leather for one of flesh and blood.
1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 31 Liberation of the will from the sheaths and clogs of organization..is the end and aim of this world.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > oaths other than religious or obscene
loOE
spi?c1225
how mischance——?c1330
with mischance!c1330
by my hoodc1374
by my sheath1532
by the mouse-foot1550
what the (also a) goodyear1570
bread and salt1575
by Jove1575
in (good) truly1576
by these hilts1598
by the Lord Harry1693
by the pody cody1693
by jingo!1694
splutter1707
by jing!1786
I snore1790
declare1811
by the hokey1825
shiver my timbers1834
by the (great) horn spoon1842
upon my Sam1879
for goodness' sake1885
yerra1892
for the love of Mike1896
by the hokey fiddle1922
knickers1971
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 595/2 Yes by my shethe.
1534 J. Heywood Play of Loue sig. Eiv The hole faute in fortune by my sheth.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [noun] > instance or example of
painted sheath1542
puff1567
wonderclout1570
snobbery1866
plush horse1891
tartine1907
dog's dinner1996
1542 T. Becon Newe Pathway vnto Praier li. sig. S.iiij Let vs not flatter oure selues nor make to much of our painted shethe, as they saye.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. x. sig. Civ She maie not beare a fether, but she must brethe, She maketh so muche of her paynted shethe.
1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas in Wks. (1910) II. 156 One Which stands so much, upon his paynted sheath..That he accompts, no Soldiour but himselfe.
1614 S. Hieron All the Serm. 159 Thou pridest thy selfe..in thy painted sheath & gay clothing.
2. A sheath-like covering. Applied to various animal and vegetable structures.
a. The tubular fold of skin into which the penis is retracted, in many animals, as the horse, bull, dog, etc. Also †= prepuce n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > specific glands > [noun] > glans penis > integument of
filmOE
circumcisea1325
prepucya1382
yard-fella1382
preputiuma1400
prepuce?a1425
pintle end?c1475
foreskin1535
sheath1555
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > sexual organs > penis > fold of skin into which penis retracts
sheath1555
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. viii. f. 38 The men of this countrey, inclose theyr priuie members in a gourde... In other places of that tract, they thrust the synew within the sheethe therof [L. intra vaginam mentularem neruum reducunt].
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice i. 70 If after your foales bee gelt, their cods and sheathes happen to swell exceeding much.
c1720 W. Gibson Farriers New Guide i. ii. 17 Its outer Cover, or Sheath, is nothing else but a Production of the Scarfskin, Hide and fleshy Pannicle.
c1800 J. Cundall Sch. Arts 34 The Cure. First throw him [the bull], and draw his pizzle out of his sheath.
b. Botany. A tubular or enrolled part or organ of a plant; the part of an expanded organ that is rolled round a stem or other body, as the spathe of a flower, the lower part of the leaves of grasses, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [noun] > sheath
hosea1450
socket1657
sheath1672
theca1682
vagina1698
sheaf1766
1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. i. 34 The Plume in Corn is trussed up within a membranous Sheath.
1720 P. Blair Bot. Ess. i. 28 Sometimes they are covered with a Vagina or Sheath at the top, which appears blackish in the middle of the Flourish, until it is fully blown, and then the Sheath falls off, and the two Portions separate.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 81 Sheath (spatha), a species of Calyx, exemplified in the Crocus, the Iris, and the Daffodil.
1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. i. ii. 95 Occasionally the petiole embraces the branch from which it springs, and in such case is said to be sheathing; and is even called a sheath, or vagina, as in grasses.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 95 I was..More crumpled than a poppy from the sheath.
1847 S. Lee Afr. Wanderers vii. 101 He found a large spatha, or sheath, full of cocoa-nuts.
1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha xiii. 184 The maize-ears full and shining Gleamed from bursting sheaths of verdure.
1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iii. 175 This sheath in all true Grasses terminates above in a membranous appendage.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iii. xx. 11 The cheap clothing that moulding itself on her feet seemed an adornment as choice as the sheaths of buds.
1882–4 M. C. Cooke Brit. Fresh-water Algæ I. 220 Cells forming a filament (Trichome) usually included in a tubular homogenous or lamellate sheath (vagina).
c. Botany. ‘A limiting layer of surrounding cellular tissue’ (B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms, 1900). Also ‘the lower, longer portion of the cell-wall in division in Oedogonium’ (B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms, Add.). bundle-sheath: see bundle-sheath n. at bundle n. Compounds 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [noun] > tissue > epidermis or cuticle
skina1398
cuticle1672
epidermis1813
epiderm1835
cortex1875
hypoderma1877
tapetum1882
sheath1884
hypodermis1898
the world > life > biology > substance > cell > parts of cell > [noun] > wall or membranes > elements of
sheath1884
sacculus1964
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 6 When a layer (simple or compound) surrounds a tissue, which differs from it, it is termed relatively to the latter a sheath.
1897 tr. Strasburger's Text-bk. Bot. (1903) 203 The glucose which is thus produced in the leaves passes out of the mesophyll cells into the elongated cells of the vascular bundle-sheaths. The glucose and maltose are transferred in these conducting sheaths through the leaf-stalks into the stem.
d. Anatomy. The connective tissue covering which closely invests a part or elongated organ, and binds it together and holds it in place. Cf. fascia n. 3.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > specific areas or structures > [noun] > outer covering
hameOE
curtel1398
pelliculea1400
coatc1400
pellicle?a1425
investment1646
tegument1646
cataphragm1656
integument1664
cortexa1676
vagina1683
vaginula1698
scabbard1753
sheath1805
calyx1851
ocrea1890
tunica adventitia1890
1805 J. F. D. Jones Treat. Suppress. Hemorrhage (1810) 54 A coagulum then, formed at the mouth of the artery, and within its sheath.
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxx. 404 There was..no inflammation of it's [i.e. the spinal cord's] membranes or effusion into its sheath.
1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) i. 10 The sheath is continued at each end into a tendon.
1873 J. Angell Elem. Animal Physiol. v. 70 Each primitive fibre is invested with a delicate sheath of fine, tough, elastic, transparent, structureless membrane, termed the sarcolemma or myolemma.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 819 The outermost of the three layers [of the intussuscepted bowel] is known as the intussuscipient, the sheath, or the receiving layer.
e. A tube-like case, covering, or protection, e.g. a hair-follicle, the covering of the sting, etc. of an insect.
ΚΠ
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 68 The sheath sometimes sticks so fast in the wound, that the animal is obliged to leave it behind; by which the bee soon after dies.
1801 tr. A. von Haller First Lines Physiol. 205 The hair, with both its cylindrical sheaths, arrives at a cutaneous pore, goes out through it, and forces the epidermis into a similar sheath.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Witch of Atlas xv, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 34 And there lay Visions..Each in its thin sheath like a chrysalis.
1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 320 Sheath of the sucker [in Membranaceæ] with only two or three apparent joints.
1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 399 The sheath of this apparatus [the ‘sucker’ of Hemipterous insects] is at these times frequently bent into an angle.
1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 369 The softening or destruction of the hair-sheaths either by lime or by putrefaction.
f. The covering of certain shellfish, e.g. the razor-shell.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > Testacea (shelled molluscs) > shelled mollusc > shell
seashella900
shale1561
buckie1596
caracol1622
valve1661
spire1681
umbilicus1688
conch-shell1697
wart-shell?1711
needle1713
multivalve1753
concha1755
periosteum1758
conch1773
devil's claw1773
furbelow1776
peewit's egg1776
worm-tube1776
rosebud1815
sheath1815
periostracum1833
epicuticle1885
epicuticula1886
leg of mutton1891
trivalve1891
1815 S. Brookes Introd. Conchol. 156 Sheath. Solen Vagina and Siliqua.
1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 174 Bivalve shells, contained in a tubular sheath distinct from the valves.
1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 114 Sheath tapering,..the valves of the shell elongated.
g. The lorica of certain protozoans, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > [noun] > member of > parts of > covering of
sheath1841
1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom iii. 34 The Tubiporidæ are enclosed in a calcareous or coriaceous sheath or tube.
1859 J. R. Greene Man. Animal Kingdom I. vii. 61 Fig. 14 showing animal [Vaginicola valvata] contracted within its sheath.
1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 121 Where the proliferating Polyps are provided with a sheath, the generative buds are always enclosed by the same test as the Polyps themselves.
h. ‘The horny covering of the bill or feet of a bird; esp. a sort of false cere of some birds, as the sheathbills, jägers, etc.’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > beak or bill > parts of
cere1486
sheath1781
tomium1824
culmen1833
gape1833
the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > beak or bill > covering of
sheath1781
rhamphotheca1870
the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > feet > part of
sheath1781
instep1783
pad1837
ocrea1890
1781 T. Pennant Genera of Birds (new ed.) 43 Upper of the upper mandible lodged in a corneous sheath.
1886 Newton in Encycl. Brit. XXI. 782/1 (note) A strange fallacy arose early..that this case or sheath [of the sheathbill] was movable.
i. The elytron or outer hard wing-case of a coleopterous insect.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > member of (beetle) > parts of > wing-case
habergeona1637
gubernaculums1661
case-wing1686
sheath-wing?1703
elytron1774
shard1811
elytrum1816
sheath1826
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 368 There are some beetles that have neither wings nor sheath.
1854 Eng. Cycl., Nat. Hist. II. 62/2 From this character of having the wings in a sheath, the term Coleoptera was applied... The superior wings, which form the sheath, are generally called elytra.
1910 D. W. Thompson tr. Aristotle Hist. Animalium I. 5 Some are coleopterous or sheath-winged, for they have their wings in a sheath or shard.
j. The fold of skin into which the claws of a feline animal are retracted.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [noun] > miscellaneous parts of
sheath1774
utricle1881
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [noun] > encasing or sheathing > that which
hosea1450
enclosure1551
clausure1564
casement1594
hull1718
encasement1741
sheath1774
casing1839
casework1842
cleading1849
sheathing1859
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 200 The cat kind are..remarkable for the sharpness..of their claws, which thrust forth from their sheath when they seize their prey.
k. A contraceptive made of thin rubber worn on the penis; a condom.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > contraception or birth control > [noun] > a contraceptive > condom
condom?1706
armour1708
machine1749
protective1827
French letter?1844
sheath1861
French safe1868
letterc1890
rubber1913
Durex1932
prophylactic1934
raincoat1934
male condom1938
Trojan1951
safety1952
safe1959
Frenchy1963
scumbag1967
internal condom1969
franger1975
dicksack1996
1861 G. Drysdale Elem. Soc. Sci. (ed. 4) ii. 349 The accessory and sensational part of the venereal act is obtained..by the use of the sheath (which is..very frequent, but more so on the continent than in this country).
1897 Sci. of Generation xx. 235 The use of various mechanical contrivances, such as French Safes, Condom Sheaths, etc.
1919 M. C. Stopes Let. to Working Mothers 14 Some men like to use a sheath, and this is quite a safe method.
1962 Lancet 2 June 1194/1 The survey shows that the sheath and coitus interruptus are still the methods most commonly used for contraception in this country.
1977 E. J. Trimmer et al. Visual Dict. Sex (1978) xiv. 134 Careful attention must be taken in the rolling on of the sheath so as not to damage it.
l. A long close-fitting dress or skirt, usually with a slit or pleat on one side. Cf. sheath dress n., sheath gown n. at Compounds 1a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of > tight-fitting
huke1415
fourreau1872
eelskin-dress1881
sheath1904
skimmer1964
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt > types of > close-fitting
tunnel skirt1870
sheath1904
hobble1911
slit skirt1913
tube skirt1948
1904 H. O. Sturgis Belchamber xx. 273 A sinuous young lady, clad in a sheath of some glittering, shimmering blackness.
1932 in C. W. Cunnington Eng. Women's Clothes in Present Cent. (1952) vii. 222 The moulded sheath glorifies the body beautifully.
1958 Observer 20 July 9/5 Dresses for day and evening are cut as figure-gripping sheaths to which are added built-out and stiffened hip-pockets of a vast size.
1976 G. Moffat Over Sea to Death ii. 24 She wore a bright green jersey sheath which emphasised her sharp angles.
3.
a. Photography. (See quots.)
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > camera > parts and accessories of camera > [noun] > plate-holders or boxes
dark box1839
plate holder1850
slide1856
repeating back1867
cassette1875
roller slide1877
kit1885
sheath1890
1890 W. E. Woodbury Encycl. Photogr. 630 Sheath, an arrangement for holding the dry plate in detective cameras so that they are protected from the light and can be conveniently changed at will. They are usually made of darkened metal.
1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 316 The lens and finders are uncovered by sliding sheaths or covers of the same leather.
b. Electronics. The anode of a thermionic valve. (Disused.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > thermionic valve > [noun] > anode of valve
plate1905
sheath1919
1919 R. D. Bangay Oscillation Valve 57 It [sc. the Fleming Valve] consists of a metal or carbon filament (F) and a metal cylinder (S) (usually called the sheath) surrounding the filament..the sheath [thus forming] the anode of the valve.
1922 R. Glazebrook Dict. Appl. Physics II. 880/2 A battery..has its positive terminal connected to the sheath.., and its negative one to the filament.
1923 Daily Mail 21 June 10 Sheath, another name for the ‘plate’ or ‘anode’ of a valve.
c. Physics. The surrounding ring of electrons in an atom.
ΚΠ
1923 G. H. Knibbs Presidential Addr. Austral. Assoc. 14 A neutral atom consists of K+N protons and K electrons in its nucleus and N electrons in its rings or sheaths.
d. Physics. A region of charged particles or plasma surrounding an object.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > radioactivity > alpha radiation > [noun] > surrounding region
sheath1923
1923 Science 12 Oct. 290/1 Around each negative electrode there is thus a sheath of definite thickness containing only positive ions and neutral atoms.
1955 A. von Engel Ionized Gases viii. 194 The anode is therefore covered with a luminous sheath—the anode glow which is sometimes divided into several luminous spots.
1973 Krall & Trivelpiece Princ. Plasma Physics i. 46 If the potential of the probe is much larger than the local potential of the plasma, the probe attracts electrons and repels ions, forming a sheath region around the probe, which is electron-rich.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Solenidae
razorc1311
spout1525
spout-fish1594
razor-fish1602
sheath-fish1602
hagfish1611
pitot1611
solen1661
sheath shell1712
sheatha1717
razor shell1752
knife-handle1755
sea-pencil1755
razor-shell clam1792
long clam1811
scabbard razor-shell1813
scimitar razor-shell1819
spout shell1848
scimitar1855
razor clam1860
a1717 W. Diaper tr. Oppian Halieuticks (1722) i. 21 Here slender Sheaths, and juicy Oysters hide.
5. Scottish and dialect. = knitting sheath n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > knitting > needle > sheath for
knitting sheath1755
knitting-case1851
sheath1893
1893 Longman's Mag. Feb. 378 Their straw sheaths tucked into the bands of their tousers [aprons], they clicked merrily away with their needles as they walked along the road.
6. A structure or banking of loose stones to prevent the overflow of a river.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > embankment or dam > [noun]
wharf1038
causeyc1330
wall1330
bulwark1555
scut1561
weir1599
mound1613
staithe1613
breastwork1641
embankment1786
bund1813
sheath1850
fleet-dyke1858
sheathing1867
causeway1878
flood-bank1928
stopbank1950
1850 J. Ogilvie Imperial Dict.
Compounds
General attributive. C1. Simple attributive often passing into adjective (applied to dress).
a.
sheath dress n.
ΚΠ
1925 in C. W. Cunnington Eng. Women's Clothes in Present Cent. (1952) vi. 184 The beltless sheath dress.
1945 N. L. McClung Stream runs Fast xv. 132 She was a sweet-faced little violet of a woman, in a sheath dress of silver cloth.
1980 ‘M. Hebden’ Pel under Pressure xiii. 129 She had one of those sheath dresses on. Fitted like a skin.
sheath gown n.
ΚΠ
1908 Westm. Gaz. 12 May 5/1 They were what are called sheath gowns or skirts à fourreau.
sheath model n.
sheath skirt n.
ΚΠ
1903 Daily Chron. 24 Jan. 8/4 Sheath-skirts..will still enjoy popularity.
b.
sheath-like adj.
ΚΠ
1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 15 Flowers with sheath-like bracts.
1899 Outlook 7 Jan. 725/2 The skirts cut in a sheath-like scantiness.
sheath-maker n.
ΚΠ
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 266/2 Sheth maker, gaignier.
1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 357 The third sort were sheath-makers for swords.
C2.
sheath-knife n. a dagger-like knife encased in a sheath.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [noun] > carried in a sheath
case knife1673
parang1820
sheath-knife1837
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > knife or dagger > [noun] > types of
anlacec1300
misericord1324
bodkin1386
baselardc1390
popperc1390
wood-knife1426
spudc1440
pavade1477
bistoury1490
skene1527
dudgeon1548
sword dagger1567
machete1575
kris1589
bum dagger1596
stillado1607
stiletto1611
steelet1616
hanjar1621
pisaa1640
jockteleg1642
khanjar1684
bayonet1692
kuttar1696
parazonium1751
skene-ochles1754
scalping-knife1759
snick-a-snee1760
manchette1762
snickersnee1775
guard-dagger1786
boarding knife1807
scalp-knife1807
kukri1811
skene-dhu1811
parang1820
stylet1820
belt knife1831
bowie-knife1836
scalper1837
sheath-knife1837
toothpick1837
tumbok lada1839
snick-and-snee knife1843
tickler1844
bowie1846
toad-sticker1858
simi1860
scramasax1862
kinjal1863
left-hander1869
main gauche1869
aikuchi1875
tanto1885
toad-stabber1885
cinquedea1897
trench knife1898
puukko1925
panga1929
quillon dagger1950
flick-knife1957
ratchet knife1966
sai1973
ratchet1975
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iv. i. 234 She purchases a large sheath-knife in the Palais Royal.
1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous viii. 165 The leather belt with the sheath-knife at the back.
sheath-piling n. = sheet-piling n. at sheet n.1 Compounds 2.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > foundation(s) > pile(s)
pilelOE
piling1422
spile1513
piloti1674
stilt1697
drift1721
bearing pile?1761
sheet-piling1789
sheeting-pile1837
screw pile1840
sheet-pile1841
sheath-piling1902
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 437/2 This can be accomplished..by careful sheath-piling to retain the sides of the excavation.
C3. Natural History. See also sheat-fish n.
sheath-edge n.
ΚΠ
1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 411 Carex Buxbaumii..sheath-edges filamentous.
sheath-leaf n.
ΚΠ
1766 Compl. Farmer at Vegetation Above there is a mark of the sheath-leaf, which was pulled [off the stalk].
1893 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3rd Ser. 4 821 The spirally twisted sheath-leaves are noticeable when the ear is beginning to form.
sheath tooth n.
ΚΠ
1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 199 A circular projection..on which the sheath-teeth are formed.
C4. † sheath-scale n. Botany Obsolete (see quot. 1796).† sheath-stone n. Obsolete (see quot. 1681).† sheath-wing n. Obsolete = 2i.
sheath bill n. a sea-bird of the genus Chionis, having the basal part of the bill ensheathed in a horny case.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > genus Chionis (sheath bill)
sheath bill1781
kelp-pigeon1886
paddy bird1894
1781 T. Pennant Genera of Birds (new ed.) 43 Sheath-bill.
1854 A. Adams et al. Man. Nat. Hist. 47 Sheathbills (Chionidæ).
1902 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 208 A mother penguin cannot leave her egg for a moment but what a sheath-bill, Chionis, dashes its beak into it.
sheath cell n. Anatomy a Schwann cell (Schwann n. b).
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > nervous system > substance of nervous system > [noun] > nerve cell > types of
nerve vesicle1839
brain cell1848
stellate cell1870
Purkinje cell1872
neuroblast1878
touch cell1878
Golgi('s) cell1892
memory cell1892
astrocyte1896
astroblast1897
motor neuron1897
cytochrome1898
stichochrome1899
monaxon1900
basket cell1901
relay neuron1903
internuncial neuron1906
sheath cell1906
motoneuron1908
adjustor1909
satellite1912
microglia1924
oligodendroglia1924
sympathicoblast1927
pituicyte1930
oligodendrocyte1932
sympathoblast1934
sympathogonia1934
interneuron1938
Renshaw cell1954
1906 Amer. Jrnl. Anat. 5 121 If one examines a developing nerve, one sees that there are numerous spindle shaped cells (cells of Schwann, sheath cells) throughout its course.
1967 D. Bodian in G. C. Quarton et al. Neurosciences 13/1 Axons that are enclosed by a single fold of a sheath cell are referred to as unmyelinated axons.
sheathclaw n. a lizard of the genus Thecodactylus.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Gekkonidae > miscellaneous types of
croaking lizard1693
fanfoot1832
sheathclaw1850
day gecko1957
1850 P. H. Gosse Nat. Hist.: Reptiles 90 The Smooth Sheath-claw..is a native of Jamaica.
sheath-horned adj. having hollow horns enclosing a horn-core.
ΚΠ
1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man (1890) ii. xii. 357 A bull, goat, or other sheath-horned ruminant.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > part of
bladec1450
grass root1474
bent1577
chat1601
grasstop1659
knee1678
locusta1707
straw1776
spikelet1793
strap1793
sheath-scale1796
spiket1796
stragule1821
scutellum1832
scobina1839
rachilla1842
chaff-scale1856
coleorhiza1866
hypoblast1882
lemma1906
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 81 Sheath-scale, a membrane found at the top of the sheathes which surround the stem of Grasses, just where the sheath ends, and the proper leaf begins.
sheath shell n. (also sheath razor-shell) the razor-shell.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Solenidae
razorc1311
spout1525
spout-fish1594
razor-fish1602
sheath-fish1602
hagfish1611
pitot1611
solen1661
sheath shell1712
sheatha1717
razor shell1752
knife-handle1755
sea-pencil1755
razor-shell clam1792
long clam1811
scabbard razor-shell1813
scimitar razor-shell1819
spout shell1848
scimitar1855
razor clam1860
1712 Mus. Thoresby. (1713) 444 The Sheath-Shell, as it is commonly called, because of its Form.
1815 E. J. Burrow Elements Conchol. 194 Solen. Razor or Sheath Shell.
1819 W. Turton Conchol. Dict. 159 Solen Vagina. Sheath Razor-shell.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Solenidae > fossil
sheath-stone1681
solenite1828
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iii. §i. i. 265 The Sheath-Stone. Solenites. Like the petrify'd shell of the Sheath-Fish.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > member of (beetle) > parts of > wing-case
habergeona1637
gubernaculums1661
case-wing1686
sheath-wing?1703
elytron1774
shard1811
elytrum1816
sheath1826
?1703 J. Petiver Gazophylacii II. 27 Its Shoulders are yellower than the Sheath Wings.
sheath-winged adj. having the wings encased in elytra, coleopterous, vaginipennate.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [adjective] > belonging to order Coleoptera
sheath-winged1646
vaginipennous1646
coleopterous1791
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xv. 141 All vaginipennous or sheathwinged insects, as Beetles and Dorrs. View more context for this quotation
1910 D. W. Thompson tr. Aristotle Hist. Animalium I. 5 Some are coleopterous or sheath-winged.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
† sheathn.2
Obsolete.
In ploughs of an old type, the bar connecting the beam and sole in front.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > sheath
sheath1356
skeeth1613
standard1652
sheat1736
α.
β. 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xxi. 139 The Plow-Tail consists of..the Share P; and the Sheat Q.1766 Compl. Farmer (at cited word) The sheat, or as it is sometimes called the fore-sheat, there being another piece of timber behind it called the hinder sheat, should be..fastened to the beam by a retch.1791 J. Townsend Journey Spain (1792) I. 229 An English mechanic will not readily conceive how a plough can be made..without any sheets to support the handle and the share.1356–7 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 384 It. in 24 schethes et 24 moldebred cum jugis spakes, 3s. 6d.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. ii The shelbrede is a brode pease of wode fast pynned to the sheth in the forther ende.
1613 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman: 1st Pt. i. Former Pt. iii. B 2 The skeath..is a peece of woode of two foote and a halfe in length, and of eight inches in breadth, and two inches in thicknesse; it is driuen extreamly hard into the Plough-beame, slopewise.
1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) vii. xvi. 662 Of it [sc. the Ash] also is made all manner of Plow and Cart-timber whatsoeuer, as Beames, Heads, Skeathes [etc.].
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 333/2 The Sheath [of a Plow] is that which holds the Beam and Throck together.
1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. ii. v. 150 According to the position of the sheath, the earth of the furrow is turned over more suddenly.
a1817 W. Muir Poems (1818) 8 The very pettle, riest an' seath, Are pil'd up for a fiery death.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
<
n.1c950
n.21356