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"t": "to put (a sword or knife) into a sheath, sheathe; to provide with a sheath; (figuratively) to have sexual intercourse"
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"ref": "1838, Martin Farquhar Tupper, “Of Searching for Pride”, in Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated, London: Joseph Rickerby, […], →OCLC, page 69",
"text": "Be aware of the smiling enemy, that openly sheatheth his weapon, / But mingleth poison in secret with the sacred salt of hospitality.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1865, “Proverbs in the Ga or Accra Language”, in Richard F[rancis] Burton, compiler, Wit and Wisdom from West Africa; or A Book of Proverbial Philosophy, Idioms, Enigmas, and Laconisms, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, number 190, page 169",
"text": "Ke okakla foo le, obon oke-woo. If thy knife cut thee thou sheathest it. N.B.—Meaning thou dost not cast it away.",
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"(transitive) To put (something such as a knife or sword) into a sheath."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pribiram v nožnica",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "прибирам в ножница"
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"_dis1": "65 4 10 10 2 8 2",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "embeinar"
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "stikke i skede"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "in de schede steken"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "terugtrekken"
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"_dis1": "65 4 10 10 2 8 2",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "ingi"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "panna tuppeen"
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"_dis1": "65 4 10 10 2 8 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "engainer"
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"_dis1": "65 4 10 10 2 8 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"note": "of a weapon",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "rengainer"
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"_dis1": "65 4 10 10 2 8 2",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "envaiñar"
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{
"_dis1": "65 4 10 10 2 8 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "in die Scheide stecken"
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"_dis1": "65 4 10 10 2 8 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "ummanteln"
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{
"_dis1": "65 4 10 10 2 8 2",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "slíðra"
},
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"_dis1": "65 4 10 10 2 8 2",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "setja í slíður"
},
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"_dis1": "65 4 10 10 2 8 2",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "engainigar"
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{
"_dis1": "65 4 10 10 2 8 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "inguainare"
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{
"_dis1": "65 4 10 10 2 8 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "rinfoderare"
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"_dis1": "65 4 10 10 2 8 2",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "saya ni ireru",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "鞘に入れる"
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"_dis1": "65 4 10 10 2 8 2",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "saya ni osameru",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "鞘に収める"
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{
"_dis1": "65 4 10 10 2 8 2",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "stikke i sliren"
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"_dis1": "65 4 10 10 2 8 2",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "kınlamak",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "قینلامق"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 10 10 2 8 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "abainhar"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 10 10 2 8 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "embainhar"
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{
"_dis1": "65 4 10 10 2 8 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "klastʹ v futljar",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "класть в футляр"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 10 10 2 8 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prjátatʹ v nóžny",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "пря́тать в но́жны"
},
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"_dis1": "65 4 10 10 2 8 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vkládyvatʹ v nóžny",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "вкла́дывать в но́жны"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 10 10 2 8 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "envainar"
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"_dis1": "65 4 10 10 2 8 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "sticka i slidan"
}
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"ref": "1765, Edward Young, “A Vindication of Providence: Or, A True Measure of Human Life. In which the Passions are Considered in a New Light.”, in The Works in Prose, of the Reverend Edward Young, LL.D. […], London: Printed for P. Brown, H. Hill, and S. Payne, →OCLC, page 239",
"text": "A chearful heart does good like a medicine, but envy corrodes like a poiſon; it is ſo ſharp, that it cuts the body which ſheathes it.",
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"ref": "1843, Ibn Khallikan, quoting Najm ad-din Mûsa al-Kamrâwi, “Abu ’l-Hasan al-Husri”, in [William] Mac Gukin de Slane, transl., Ibn Khallikan’s Biographical Dictionary: Translated from the Arabic (Oriental Translation Fund; no. 59), volume I, Paris: Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland; sold by Benjamin Duprat, […] and Allen and Co, […], →OCLC, page 243",
"text": "When thou sheathest thy glances in thy eyelids, they inflict deadly wounds: what must they be when thou drawest them from their scabbards!",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 17, in The Subtle Minotaur, London: John Gifford, →OCLC, →OL",
"text": "She sheathed her legs in the sheerest of the nylons that her father had brought back from the Continent, and slipped her feet into the toeless, high-heeled shoes of black suède.",
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"To encase (something) with a protective covering."
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"(transitive) To encase (something) with a protective covering."
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"_dis1": "2 89 2 1 3 2 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "obvivam",
"sense": "to encase (something) with a protective covering",
"word": "обвивам"
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"_dis1": "2 89 2 1 3 2 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "obšivam",
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"word": "обшивам"
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"_dis1": "2 89 2 1 3 2 1",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to encase (something) with a protective covering",
"word": "peittää"
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"sense": "to encase (something) with a protective covering",
"tags": [
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"word": "kätkeä"
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"_dis1": "2 89 2 1 3 2 1",
"code": "fr",
"english": "referring to electrical wires",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to encase (something) with a protective covering",
"word": "engainer"
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"_dis1": "2 89 2 1 3 2 1",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "kınlamak",
"sense": "to encase (something) with a protective covering",
"word": "قینلامق"
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"_dis1": "2 89 2 1 3 2 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obšítʹ",
"sense": "to encase (something) with a protective covering",
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"word": "обши́ть"
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"_dis1": "2 89 2 1 3 2 1",
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"sense": "to encase (something) with a protective covering",
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"ref": "1750, [Noël-Antoine Pluche], “Birds. Dialogue XI.”, in Samuel Humphreys, transl., Spectacle de la Nature: Or, Nature Display’d. Being Discourses on Such Particulars of Natural History, as were Thought Most Proper to Excite the Curiosity, and Form the Minds of Youth. […] Translated from the Original French, 7th revised and corrected edition, London: Printed for R. Francklin, […], →OCLC, page 183",
"text": "We are told, that Dews and the Juices of Flowers are their [hummingbirds'] Food, which they extract with their little Tongue, whoſe Length exceeds that of their Bill, and ſerves them inſtead of a Trunk, which they contract and ſheathe in their Bill.",
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"Of an animal: to draw back or retract (a body part) into the body, such as claws into a paw."
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"(transitive) Of an animal: to draw back or retract (a body part) into the body, such as claws into a paw."
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"_dis1": "3 2 81 6 4 1 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of an animal: to draw back or retract (a body part) into the body",
"word": "vetää sisään"
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"ref": "1708, Erasmus Roterodamus, “[A Sermon of Conforming and Reforming, Made to the Convocation at St. Paul’s Church in London, by John Colet, D.D. Dean of the Said Church, in the Year 1511.] The Life of Dr. Colet.”, in [John Dunton], editor, The Second Volume of The Phenix: Or, A Revival of Scarce and Valuable Pieces No Where to be Found but in the Closets of the Curious. […], volume II, number Phenix XVII, London: Printed for J[ohn] Morphew […], →OCLC, § 29, page 25",
"text": "[T]hey who either thro Hatred, or Ambition, or Covetouſneſs, do fight with evil Men, and ſo kill one another, fight not under the Banner of Chriſt, but the Devil; ſhewing [...] how difficult for ſuch to be in Charity (without which no Man ſhall ſee God) who ſheathe their Swords in their Brethens Bowels.",
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"To thrust (a sharp object like a sword, a claw, or a tusk) into something."
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"(transitive, dated or literary, poetic, figuratively) To thrust (a sharp object like a sword, a claw, or a tusk) into something."
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"To abandon or cease (animosity, etc.)"
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"(transitive, obsolete or rare, figuratively) To abandon or cease (animosity, etc.)"
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"To provide (a sword, etc.) with a sheath."
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"(transitive, obsolete) To provide (a sword, etc.) with a sheath."
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"ref": "1716, John Radcliffe, “[An Appendix to Dr. Radcliffe’s Recipe’s.] Ramose, Flexile, Smooth Medicines. [Observations.]”, in Pharmacopoeia Radcliffeana: Or, Dr. Radcliff’s Prescriptions, Faithfully Gather’d from His Original Recipes. […], 2nd corrected edition, London: Printed for Charles Rivington, […], →OCLC, pages 540 and 541",
"text": "[page 540] Theſe ſmooth and oily Med'cines act by ſheathing acrimonious Salts in the Blood, and preventing Inconveniences from 'em; and by relaxing the Fibres, and hence widening 'em. [...] [page 541] [They] are convenient in Coughs, from thin and ſharp Rheums, becauſe they ſheathe the Salts that gall the Lungs.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1738 December, C. Mortimer, “VI. An Abstract by C. Mortimer, M.D. Secr[etary of the] R[oyal] S[ociety] of an Inaugural Dissertation Published at Wittemberg 1736. by Dr. Abraham Vater, F.R.S. Concerning the Cure of the Bite of a Viper, Cured by Sallad-oil.”, in Philosophical Transactions. Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours, of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume XXXIX, number 451, London: Printed for T. Woodward, […] ; and C. Davis […] ; printers to the Royal Society, →OCLC, page 443",
"text": "He concludes this Diſſertation, by endeavouring to explain the Manner of its [olive oil's] operating, which he attributes to its fat inviſcating Nature, whereby it ſheathes the Spicula of the Poiſon.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1747, Tho[mas] Short, Medicina Britannica: Or A Treatise on Such Physical Plants, as are Generally to be Found in the Fields and Gardens in Great-Britain: Containing a Particular Account of Their Nature, Virtues, and Uses. […], 2nd edition, London: Printed for R. Manby and H. Shute Cox, […], →OCLC, paragraph 73, page 66",
"text": "Comfry Root (Symphytum) is a principal Vulnerary; it is very mucilaginous and thickening, its clammy Juice ſheathes the Sharpneſs of the Humours; [...]",
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"ref": "1838, Martin Farquhar Tupper, “Of Searching for Pride”, in Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated, London: Joseph Rickerby, […], →OCLC, page 69",
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"text": "When thou sheathest thy glances in thy eyelids, they inflict deadly wounds: what must they be when thou drawest them from their scabbards!",
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"text": "We are told, that Dews and the Juices of Flowers are their [hummingbirds'] Food, which they extract with their little Tongue, whoſe Length exceeds that of their Bill, and ſerves them inſtead of a Trunk, which they contract and ſheathe in their Bill.",
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"text": "[T]hey who either thro Hatred, or Ambition, or Covetouſneſs, do fight with evil Men, and ſo kill one another, fight not under the Banner of Chriſt, but the Devil; ſhewing [...] how difficult for ſuch to be in Charity (without which no Man ſhall ſee God) who ſheathe their Swords in their Brethens Bowels.",
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"ref": "1716, John Radcliffe, “[An Appendix to Dr. Radcliffe’s Recipe’s.] Ramose, Flexile, Smooth Medicines. [Observations.]”, in Pharmacopoeia Radcliffeana: Or, Dr. Radcliff’s Prescriptions, Faithfully Gather’d from His Original Recipes. […], 2nd corrected edition, London: Printed for Charles Rivington, […], →OCLC, pages 540 and 541",
"text": "[page 540] Theſe ſmooth and oily Med'cines act by ſheathing acrimonious Salts in the Blood, and preventing Inconveniences from 'em; and by relaxing the Fibres, and hence widening 'em. [...] [page 541] [They] are convenient in Coughs, from thin and ſharp Rheums, becauſe they ſheathe the Salts that gall the Lungs.",
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"text": "Comfry Root (Symphytum) is a principal Vulnerary; it is very mucilaginous and thickening, its clammy Juice ſheathes the Sharpneſs of the Humours; [...]",
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"roman": "pribiram v nožnica",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
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"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
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"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "in die Scheide stecken"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "ummanteln"
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"code": "is",
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"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "slíðra"
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{
"code": "is",
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"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "setja í slíður"
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"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "engainigar"
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"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "inguainare"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
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"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "saya ni ireru",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "鞘に入れる"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
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"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "鞘に収める"
},
{
"code": "no",
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"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "stikke i sliren"
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{
"code": "ota",
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"roman": "kınlamak",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "قینلامق"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "abainhar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "embainhar"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "klastʹ v futljar",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "класть в футляр"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "prjátatʹ v nóžny",
"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "пря́тать в но́жны"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "to put (something) into a sheath",
"word": "вкла́дывать в но́жны"
},
{
"code": "es",
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"word": "envainar"
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{
"code": "sv",
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"word": "sticka i slidan"
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"roman": "obvivam",
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"word": "обвивам"
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{
"code": "bg",
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},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to encase (something) with a protective covering",
"word": "peittää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to encase (something) with a protective covering",
"tags": [
"figuratively"
],
"word": "kätkeä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"english": "referring to electrical wires",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to encase (something) with a protective covering",
"word": "engainer"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "kınlamak",
"sense": "to encase (something) with a protective covering",
"word": "قینلامق"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obšítʹ",
"sense": "to encase (something) with a protective covering",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "обши́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obšivátʹ",
"sense": "to encase (something) with a protective covering",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "обшива́ть"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of an animal: to draw back or retract (a body part) into the body",
"word": "vetää sisään"
}
],
"word": "sheathe"
}
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