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Decide :: Decide (v. i.) To determine; to form a definite opinion; to come to a conclusion; to give decision; as, the court decided in favor of the defendant..

Vouch :: Vouch (v. t.) To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title..

Free :: Free (superl.) Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc..

Eudoxian :: Eudoxian (n.) A follower of Eudoxius, patriarch of Antioch and Constantinople in the 4th century, and a celebrated defender of the doctrines of Arius..

Kamichi :: Kamichi (n.) A curious South American bird (Anhima, / Palamedea, cornuta), often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry, which it defends against birds of prey. It has a long, slender, hornlike ornament on its head, and two sharp spurs on each wing. Although its beak, feet, and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds, it is related in anatomical characters to the ducks and geese (Anseres). Called also horned screamer. The name is sometimes applied also to the chaja. See Chaja, and S

Buckler :: Buckler (v. t.) To shield; to defend.

Avoid :: Avoid (a.) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter..

Defend :: Defend (v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid.

Petitionee :: Petitionee (n.) A person cited to answer, or defend against, a petition..

Cheval-de-frise :: Cheval-de-frise (n.) A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc..

Color :: Color (n.) An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court..

Factorize :: Factorize (v. t.) To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the suit of the plaintiff..

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

Declaim :: Declaim (v. t.) To defend by declamation; to advocate loudly.

Bodyguard :: Bodyguard (n.) A guard to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard.

Gauntlet :: Gauntlet (n.) A glove of such material that it defends the hand from wounds.

Weather-fend :: Weather-fend (v. t.) To defend from the weather; to shelter.

Patron :: Patron (n.) One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender..

Surrein :: Surrebuter (n.) The reply of a plaintiff to a defendant's rebutter.

Ward :: Ward (n.) One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection..

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