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
S Champotón; ♂, 40859, testis 8 × 5 mm., molting—7th primaries ensheathed, 27.0 gm.
From Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula by Klaas, Erwin E.
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 Poe, Edgar Allan
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
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 Rogers, Charles
To allow of the satisfactory assumption of the more complicated rifling by the more rapidly projected bullet, the lead core has been ensheathed in a mantle of denser metal.
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
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
The investigators were not even certain that Huang had been injecting olfactory ensheathing cells.
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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