Definition of fend

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Fend (n.) A fiend.

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Petitionee :: Petitionee (n.) A person cited to answer, or defend against, a petition..
Surrejoinder :: Surrejoin (v. i.) To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder..
Reconvention :: Reconvention (n.) A cross demand; an action brought by the defendant against the plaintiff before the same judge.
Opponent :: Opponent (n.) One who opposes in a disputation, argument, or other verbal controversy; specifically, one who attacks some theirs or proposition, in distinction from the respondent, or defendant, who maintains it..
Defenser :: Defenser (n.) Defender.
Pillory :: Pillory (n.) A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it..
Grate :: Grate (v. i.) To produce the effect of rubbing with a hard rough material; to cause wearing, tearing, or bruising. Hence; To produce exasperation, soreness, or grief; to offend by oppression or importunity..
Varuna :: Varuna (n.) The god of the waters; the Indian Neptune. He is regarded as regent of the west, and lord of punishment, and is represented as riding on a sea monster, holding in his hand a snaky cord or noose with which to bind offenders, under water..
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..
Forted :: Forted (a.) Furnished with, or guarded by, forts; strengthened or defended, as by forts..
Patron :: Patron (n.) One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender..
Deterge :: Deterge (v. t.) To cleanse; to purge away, as foul or offending matter from the body, or from an ulcer..
Mercy :: Mercy (n.) Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency..
Bastion :: Bastion (n.) A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin..
Defend :: Defend (v. t.) To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.
Crossbill :: Crossbill () A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit..
Withernam :: Withernam (n.) A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of return..
Offending :: Offending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Offen.
Apologize :: Apologize (v. t.) To defend.
Offend :: Offend (v. t.) To be offensive to; to harm; to pain; to annoy; as, strong light offends the eye; to offend the conscience..
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