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Defence :: Defence (n.) The defendant's answer or plea; an opposing or denial of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's or prosecutor's case; the method of proceeding adopted by the defendant to protect himself against the plaintiff's action.

Propugn :: Propugn (v. t.) To contend for; to defend; to vindicate.

Support :: Support (v. t.) To keep from failing or sinking; to solace under affictive circumstances; to assist; to encourage; to defend; as, to support the courage or spirits..

Wall :: Wall (v. t.) To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify..

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

Sillon :: Sillon (n.) A work raised in the middle of a wide ditch, to defend it..

Blockhouse :: Blockhouse (n.) An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany..

Prevarication :: Prevarication (n.) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution..

Bill :: Bill (n.) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law..

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

Defence :: Defence (n.) The act of defending, or the state of being defended; protection, as from violence or danger..

Embankment :: Embankment (n.) The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.

Safeguard :: Safeguard (n.) One who, or that which, defends or protects; defense; protection..

Advocate :: Advocate (n.) One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth..

Towered :: Towered (a.) Adorned or defended by towers.

Defensor :: Defensor (n.) A defender or an advocate in court; a guardian or protector.

Counsel :: Counsel (n.) One who gives advice, especially in legal matters; one professionally engaged in the trial or management of a cause in court; also, collectively, the legal advocates united in the management of a case; as, the defendant has able counsel..

Defend :: Defend (v. t.) To deny the right of the plaintiff in regard to (the suit, or the wrong charged); to oppose or resist, as a claim at law; to contest, as a suit..

Rejoinder :: Rejoinder (n.) The defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication.

Fender :: Fender (v. t. & i.) One who or that which defends or protects by warding off har.

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