(n.) The case in which the blade of a sword, dagger, etc., is kept; a sheath.
(v. t.) To put in a scabbard.
Example Sentences:
(1) The image Orwell uses to capture the essence of English public life is of "a society which is ruled by the sword, no doubt, but a sword which must never be taken out of its scabbard".
(2) Democratic hypocrisy, in Orwell's terms, is saved by the element of self-deception on which it rests, which is what turns the illusion into a half-truth, and keeps the sword in its scabbard.
(3) The sword is still in the scabbard, and while it stays there corruption cannot go beyond a certain point."
(4) Imperial hypocrisy is rendered self-defeating by that same self-deception, since the sword cannot remain in the scabbard, and will be deployed for the supposed benefit of the people it is being used to coerce, by people who are unable to be honest with themselves about the nature of that coercion.
(5) After all, it is in the essence of imperial power that the sword does not remain in the scabbard.
(6) Espada (scabbard fish) is another speciality; it is served as a small plate at O Tasca in Funchal (Rua Bela São Tiago 137), followed by pudim de maracujá (passion fruit pudding).
Unsheathe
Definition:
(v. t.) To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although the use of peripheral nerve stimulators and unsheathed needles in performing nerve blocks has been previously described, there has been a growing emphasis on the use of specific, expensive equipment to ensure success.
(2) changed morphology from rods of about 6 to 8 microns long to multicellular filaments (unsheathed trichomes) up to many hundreds of micrometres long with the addition of glycine or certain D-amino acids to the growth medium.
(3) Cj had only one unsheathed flagellum on each end without a bulbous tip.
(4) When grown on solid medium, most strains of B. campbellii and B. neptuna and all strains of B. alginolytica and B. parahaemolytica had unsheathed, peritrichous flagella in addition to the single, sheathed, polar flagellum.
(5) He points out his primary school, his father's church, the house where he was brought up, the hospice where he and Sarah worked unpublicised in the summer of 2009, when the country was in recession and would-be assassins in the Labour party were agonising about whether to unsheathe their daggers.
(6) Embryos emerged from the egg in the uterus and were born as unsheathed microfilariae.
(7) Co-polymerization of flagellin from unsheathed flagella and flagellin from apparently sheathed flagella was also demonstrated.
(8) The hypocrisy of empire is revealed here as the unsheathing of the weapon by someone who does not wish to use it, and has lost all control of what can be done with it, or even of what it is for, but must go through with his part anyway.
(9) Thickening and multilamination of the basal laminae were observed in both the sheathed and unsheathed vessels.
(10) Cytoplasmic processes of glial cells had invaded the adventitia in sheathed vessels and even in unsheathed ones.
(11) Unsheathed microfilariae presumed to be Onchocerca species were found in the skin as well.
(12) Pendragon insisted on swearing the oath on his sword Excalibur, and Starmer managed to persuade staff at the court in Salisbury to let him unsheath it.
(13) Inflate thy balloons and unsheathe thy mint Viscounts, for here is Labyrinth ( Saturday, 9pm, Channel 4 ) to remind us of the unique joy of the shonkily realised international costume epic.
(14) Anterior lesser curvature argon laser seromyotomy was performed with the argon laser at 10 W, continuous, delivered through a 600 micron unsheathed quartz fibre.
(15) Examination of 31 male sperm whales (Physeter catodon) caught off the western coast of Iceland revealed three cases of genital papillomatosis involving the unsheathed penis.
(16) The unsheathed microfilaria is found in the peripheral blood.
(17) The odontoblast layer in the pulpal cornu contained substantial numbers of unsheathed axons, many presumably en route to the dentin.
(18) It is concluded that all the fibers in the crown of the cat's canine would be contained in the A-delta and C groups and that the strikingly large number of fibers present suggests that the peripheral pulp has a dense innervation, many of the cell processes found there being unsheathed axons.
(19) An imperial order unconstrained by democratic or liberal hypocrisies, in which power can be called by its proper name, in which the sword is always unsheathed because there is never any need to conceal it, is certainly possible.
(20) The vascular supply to the unsheathed parts of the extensor tendons shows morphological adaptations to differential mechanical stress during tendon excursion.