sheatheth

Verb

sheathe (third-person singular simple present sheathes, present participle sheathing, simple past and past participle sheathed)

1. (transitive) To put (something such as a knife or sword) into a sheath.
   • Sheath your Dagger: / Be angry when you will, it ſhall haue ſcope: […]1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

   Antonyms:

   unsheathe

2. (transitive) 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.1765, Edward Young, “A Vindication of Providence: Or, A True Measure of Human Life. In which the Passions are Considered in a New Light.”, in The Works in Prose, of the Reverend Edward Young, LL.D....

   Antonyms:

   unsheathe

3. (transitive) 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, […]1687, [John Dryden], “The Third Part”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 88

   Antonyms:

   unsheathe

4. (dated, figuratively, literary, poetic, transitive) 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.1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC, [verse 186], lines [1115–1116]; republished as Shakespeare’s Venus & Adonis: […], London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent...
5. (figuratively, obsolete, rare, transitive) To abandon or cease (animosity, etc.)
   • Let him die, but firſt ſheth your impatience, throw cold water on your collor, […]c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, […] [T]he Merrie Wiues of Windsor. […] (First Quarto), London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for Arthur Ihonson, […], published 1602, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]
6. (obsolete, transitive) 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: […]c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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