Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no sheath; not sheathed; evaginate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.
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- adjective Without a
sheath .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The team first creates many "sheathless" copies of the enzyme, which are modified to function only in the presence of a triggering molecule such as fluoride.
innovations-report 2009
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The team first creates many "sheathless" copies of the enzyme, which are modified to function only in the presence of a triggering molecule such as fluoride.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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The team first creates many "sheathless" copies of the enzyme, which are modified to function only in the presence of a triggering molecule such as fluoride.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009
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A sheathless scimitar was thrust through his belt and his tunic bore dark stains of blood and sweat.
The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004
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Of creatures that can fly and are bloodless some are coleopterous or sheath-winged, for they have their wings in a sheath or shard, like the cockchafer and the dung-beetle; others are sheathless, and of these latter some are dipterous and some tetrapterous: tetrapterous, such as are comparatively large or have their stings in the tail, dipterous, such as are comparatively small or have their stings in front.
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Two things he noticed at once: The barbarian was pulling his sword-a new blade, from its look-and at his side he carried Lemparius's curved knife, sheathless, through his belt!
Conan the Fearless Perry, Steve 1986
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Maeonian king, and sent to Troy in forbidden weapons, lightly armed with sheathless sword and white unemblazoned shield.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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His sheathless sword shall smite at last; he waits and knits
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We threw off our shoes, wallets and cloaks, tucked up our tunics and, staffs in one hand and sheathless knives in the other, barefoot, raced back along the track after the guiding dog.
Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Edward Lucas White 1900
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"Willingly, willingly; but what is this?" exclaimed the cutler, as Arvina unbuckling his toga and suffering it to drop on the ground, stood clad in his succinct and snow-white tunic only, girded about him with a zone of purple leather, in which was stuck the sheathless dirk of Cataline.
The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2) Henry William Herbert 1832
hernesheir commented on the word sheathless
unsheathed
March 15, 2011