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Definition of Ensheathe
1. [v -SHEATHED, -SHEATHING, -SHEATHES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ensheathe
Literary usage of Ensheathe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"... into secondary lamellae which ensheathe the pelvic viscera. To do this he must
take the following steps:— Dissection.—Detach the crura of the clitoris ..."
2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1900)
"The scales which ensheathe the base of the caudal are 3 in number, enlarged and
widened. Tubes of the lateral line branched. General color greenish or ..."
3. The Metropolitan (1843)
"His witless words ensheathe ! Be not thus rash Of speech, my Gennaro, for the
world oft talks Evil or good, of those that merit neither, Being by their ..."
4. A German-English dictionary of terms used in medicine and the allied sciences by Hugo Lang, Bertram Abrahams (1905)
"... vt to ensheathe, to invaginate, to invest Umschlag, m. poultice, fomentation
Umschlagen, vt to poultice, foment Umschlagfalte, ..."
5. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetical Works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1873)
"... That, like a brazen sound Excluding others, doth ensheathe us round,— Hear it.
It is not from the visible skies Though they are still, Unconscious that ..."
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