Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SHEATH-ED
SHEATH-ED, pp.
- Put in a sheath; inclosed or covered with a case; covered; lined; invested with a membrane.
- adj. In botany, vaginate; invested by a sheath or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses. – Martyn.
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