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Pavise :: Pavise (n.) A large shield covering the whole body, carried by a pavisor, who sometimes screened also an archer with it..

Clypeate :: Clypeate (a.) Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.

Enshield :: Enshield (a.) Shielded; enshielded.

Scute :: Scute (n.) A small shield.

Screen :: Screen (n.) Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen..

Guard :: Guard (n.) To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend; to shelter; to shield from surprise or attack; to protect by attendance; to accompany for protection; to care for..

Scutiferous :: Scutiferous (a.) Carrying a shield or buckler.

Embossed :: Embossed (a.) Having a part projecting like the boss of a shield.

Ancile :: Ancile (n.) The sacred shield of the Romans, said to have-fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome..

Protector :: Protector (n.) One who, or that which, defends or shields from injury, evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron..

Shield :: Shield (n.) Anything which protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.

Canton :: Canton (n.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side..

Shield-bearer :: Shield-bearer (n.) One who, or that which, carries a shield..

Boss :: Boss (n.) A protuberant ornament on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as upon a buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield. See Umbilicus..

Score :: Score (v. t.) To engrave, as upon a shield..

Bendy :: Bendy (a.) Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge.

Pelta :: Pelta (n.) A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptic form, or crescent-shaped..

Scutibranchiate :: Scutibranchiate (a.) Having the gills protected by a shieldlike shell; of or pertaining to the Scutibranchiata.

Giggyng :: Giggyng (n.) The act of fastending the gige or leather strap to the shield.

Ailette :: Ailette (n.) A small square shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet..

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