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Bracelet :: Bracelet (n.) A piece of defensive armor for the arm.

Self-defensive :: Self-defensive (a.) Defending, or tending to defend, one's own person, property, or reputation..

Gallery :: Gallery (a.) Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery..

Spirant :: Spiralozooid (n.) One of the special defensive zooids of certain hydroids. They have the form of long, slender tentacles, and bear lasso cells..

Offensive :: Offensive (a.) Making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence, used in attacking; -- opposed to defensive; as, an offensive war; offensive weapons..

Defensive :: Defensive (n.) That which defends; a safeguard.

Armor :: Armor (n.) Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle.

Defence :: Defence (n.) Act or skill in making defense; defensive plan or policy; practice in self defense, as in fencing, boxing, etc..

Ward :: Ward (n.) A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard..

Barded :: Barded (p.a.) Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse.

Fend :: Fend (v. i.) To act on the defensive, or in opposition; to resist; to parry; to shift off..

Ward :: Ward (v. i.) To act on the defensive with a weapon.

Panoply :: Panoply (n.) Defensive armor in general; a full suit of defensive armor.

Parry :: Parry (n.) A warding off of a thrust or blow, as in sword and bayonet exercises or in boxing; hence, figuratively, a defensive movement in debate or other intellectual encounter..

Helmet :: Helmet (n.) A defensive covering for the head. See Casque, Headpiece, Morion, Sallet, and Illust. of Beaver..

Breastplate :: Breastplate (n.) A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor.

Protective :: Protective (a.) Affording protection; sheltering; defensive.

Girandole :: Girandole (n.) A series of chambers in defensive mines.

Barde :: Barde (pl.) Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.

Cuish :: Cuish (n.) Defensive armor for the thighs.

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