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Outguard :: Outguard (n.) A guard or small body of troops at a distance from the main body of an army, to watch for the approach of an enemy; hence, anything for defense placed at a distance from the thing to be defended..

Maintain :: Maintain (v. t.) To affirm; to support or defend by argument.

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

Parados :: Parados (n.) An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse..

Prophylactical :: Prophylactical (a.) Defending or preserving from disease; preventive.

Justifier :: "Justifier (n.) One who justifies; one who vindicates, supports, defends, or absolves..

Plead :: Plead (v. t.) To discuss, defend, and attempt to maintain by arguments or reasons presented to a tribunal or person having uthority to determine; to argue at the bar; as, to plead a cause before a court or jury..

Cognovit :: Cognovit (n.) An instrument in writing whereby a defendant in an action acknowledges a plaintiff's demand to be just.

Surrebuter :: Surrebut (v. i.) To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rebutter..

Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court..

Stoutness :: Stoutly (adv.) In a stout manner; lustily; boldly; obstinately; as, he stoutly defended himself..

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

Warranty :: Warranty (n.) A covenant real, whereby the grantor of an estate of freehold and his heirs were bound to warrant and defend the title, and, in case of eviction by title paramount, to yield other lands of equal value in recompense. This warranty has long singe become obsolete, and its place supplied by personal covenants for title. Among these is the covenant of warranty, which runs with the land, and is in the nature of a real covenant..

Apocryphalist :: Apocryphalist (n.) One who believes in, or defends, the Apocrypha..

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

Defendee :: Defendee (n.) One who is defended.

Plea :: Plea (n.) That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause; in a stricter sense, an allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer; in a still more limited sense, and in modern practice, the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's declaration and demand. That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant's plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why

Taxable :: Taxable (a.) That may be legally charged by a court against the plaintiff of defendant in a suit; as, taxable costs..

Defensive :: Defensive (a.) Serving to defend or protect; proper for defense; opposed to offensive; as, defensive armor..

Fortification :: Fortification (n.) That which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle..

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