ensheathe
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of ensheathe
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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 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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 Thompson, Francis
It leads into a straight alimentary canal whose walls consist of a layer of ciliated cells ensheathed in a thin layer of peritoneal cells.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
She was a soul enmeshed in an ethereal body, rather than a body which ensheathed a soul.
From The Redemption of David Corson by Goss, Charles Frederic
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 Klaas, Erwin E.
For this reason, therefore, provided the fighting takes place on stony ground, I believe the Mauser bullet and others ensheathed in steel to be much more dangerous surgically than those encased in cupro-nickel.
From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by Makins, George Henry
The blade was ensheathed in a strong fibrous capsule 1/2 inch thick, and the adjacent brain-structure was apparently normal.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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
They also looked at the fly equivalent of microglia, called ensheathing glia, whose primary function is to remove neural debris, such as degenerating axons.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2023
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
The surgeons had to open his skull and take out the ensheathing cells, a five-hour-long operation, and then open up his spine and put them back in—another five hours.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 25, 2016
Indeed, for centuries the glands were not given a separate status as organs, but were passed up as part of the fat ensheathing the kidney.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.
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