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Doubling :: Doubling (n.) The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon.

Umbo :: Umbo (n.) The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike..

Scutage :: Scutage (n.) Shield money; commutation of service for a sum of money. See Escuage.

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

Quarterly :: Quarterly (adv.) In quarters, or quarterings; as, to bear arms quarterly; in four or more parts; -- said of a shield thus divided by lines drawn through it at right angles..

Bevilled :: Bevilled (a.) Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.

Cephalaspis :: Cephalaspis (n.) A genus of fossil ganoid fishes found in the old red sandstone or Devonian formation. The head is large, and protected by a broad shield-shaped helmet prolonged behind into two lateral points..

Massy :: Massy (superl.) Compacted into, or consisting of, a mass; having bulk and weight ot substance; ponderous; bulky and heavy; weight; heavy; as, a massy shield; a massy rock..

Muff :: Muff (n.) A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold..

Esquire :: Esquire (n.) Originally, a shield-bearer or armor-bearer, an attendant on a knight; in modern times, a title of dignity next in degree below knight and above gentleman; also, a title of office and courtesy; -- often shortened to squire..

Mantelet :: Mantelet (n.) A musket-proof shield of rope, wood, or metal, which is sometimes used for the protection of sappers or riflemen while attacking a fortress, or of gunners at embrasures; -- now commonly written mantlet..

Shielddrake :: Shielddrake (n.) A sheldrake.

Aegis :: Aegis (n.) A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection.

Shield :: Shield (n.) Figuratively, one who protects or defends..

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

Gyron :: Gyron (n.) A subordinary of triangular form having one of its angles at the fess point and the opposite aide at the edge of the escutcheon. When there is only one gyron on the shield it is bounded by two lines drawn from the fess point, one horizontally to the dexter side, and one to the dexter chief corner..

Impenetrable :: Impenetrable (a.) Incapable of being penetrated or pierced; not admitting the passage of other bodies; not to be entered; impervious; as, an impenetrable shield..

Hypaspist :: Hypaspist (n.) A shield-bearer or armor-bearer.

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

Escuage :: Escuage (n.) Service of the shield, a species of knight service by which a tenant was bound to follow his lord to war, at his own charge. It was afterward exchanged for a pecuniary satisfaction. Called also scutage..

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