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Plating :: Plating (n.) A coating or defensive armor of metal (usually steel) plates.

Mail :: Mail (n.) Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering..

Mail :: Mail (n.) A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor.

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

Intrenchment :: Intrenchment (n.) Any defensive work consisting of at least a trench or ditch and a parapet made from the earth thrown up in making such a ditch.

Shield :: Shield (n.) A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, -- formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See Buckler..

Barbed :: Barbed (a.) Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded ( which is the proper form..

Weapon :: Weapon (n.) An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc..

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

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

Casque :: Casque (n.) A piece of defensive or ornamental armor (with or without a vizor) for the head and neck; a helmet.

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

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

Acontia :: Acontia (n. pl.) Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniae when irritated..

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

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

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

Defendant :: Defendant (a.) Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive..

Fenceful :: Fenceful (a.) Affording defense; defensive.

Defensive :: Defensive (a.) In a state or posture of defense.

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