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Shield :: Shield (n.) The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms. Cf. Lozenge. See Illust. of Escutcheon.

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

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

Blazon :: Blazon (n.) An heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings..

Charge :: Charge (v. t.) To assume as a bearing; as, he charges three roses or; to add to or represent on; as, he charges his shield with three roses or..

Target :: Target (n.) A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war..

Quartering :: Quartering (n.) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.

Semirecondite :: Semirecondite (a.) Half hidden or half covered; said of the head of an insect when half covered by the shield of the thorax.

Enshield :: Enshield (v. t.) To defend, as with a shield; to shield..

Squire :: Squire (n.) A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.

Ponderous :: Ponderous (a.) Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant..

Buckler :: Buckler (n.) A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body..

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..

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..

Athalamous :: Athalamous (a.) Not furnished with shields or beds for the spores, as the thallus of certain lichens..

Scutibranchiata :: Scutibranchiata (n. pl.) An order of gastropod Mollusca having a heart with two auricles and one ventricle. The shell may be either spiral or shieldlike.

Bipeltate :: Bipeltate (a.) Having a shell or covering like a double shield.

Hyperaspist :: Hyperaspist (n.) One who holds a shield over another; hence, a defender..

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

Scutum :: Scutum (n.) An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; -- carried chiefly by the heavy-armed infantry..

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