ensheathe
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of ensheathe
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Under its burnished belly slips a ray of eventide, The flickerings of a hundred glowing clouds its tenebrous side With scales of golden mail ensheathe.
From New Poems by Francis Thompson
Ador.There is a silentness That answers thee enow, That, like a brazen sound Excluding others, doth ensheathe us round,— Hear it.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Was thy valiancy laid, or unhilted thy blade, When came onwards in battle array The sepulchre-swarms, ensheathed in their arms, To sack and to rifle their prey?
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
Around the neck thus ensheathed, was a collar of cylindrical glass beads, diverse in color, and so arranged as to form images of deities, of the scarabaeus, etc, with the winged globe.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 by Edgar Allan Poe
The Uintah Mountains stretched out in the south, thrusting their peaks into the sky and shining as if ensheathed with silver.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 by Various
This last specimen had essentially completed the autumnal molt into winter plumage, with only a few feathers remaining ensheathed basally.
From Vertebrates from the Barrier Island of Tamaulipas, M?xico by Richard F. Johnston
For birds undergoing postnuptial or postjuvenal molt, the degree of advancement of the molt is indicated by the numbers of primaries and rectrices that are new or partly ensheathed.
From Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula by Erwin E. Klaas
Finally, they showed that after actually damaging olfactory neurons, the ensheathing glia could not remove the degenerating axons in the flies on the high sugar diet because their Draper levels did not increase.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2023
Further tests revealed that artificial reduction of PI3k levels led to both insulin resistance and low Draper levels in ensheathing glia.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2023
The same is the case for a range of glial cells, which create a stable environment for neurons by ensheathing them, providing nutrients, and defending against pathogens -- all important for a young, still-developing organ.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023
Tabakow and Raisman concluded that there would be few usable olfactory ensheathing cells left in Fidyka’s nose.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 25, 2016
Leaves ensheathing the stem, opposite, oval, red-bordered, glabrous.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
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