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

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.

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

Breastwork :: Breastwork (n.) A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material..

Gambison :: Gambison (n.) A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted..

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

Armor-plated :: Armor-plated (a.) Covered with defensive plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad..

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

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

Stockade :: Stockade (v. t.) A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Indefensive :: Indefensive (a.) Defenseless.

Defensive :: Defensive (a.) Carried on by resisting attack or aggression; -- opposed to offensive; as, defensive war..

Target :: Target (n.) A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war..

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