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

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it..

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

Towered :: Towered (a.) Adorned or defended by towers.

Effendi :: Effendi (n.) Master; sir; -- a title of a Turkish state official and man of learning, especially one learned in the law..

Scandalize :: Scandalize (v. t.) To offend the feelings or the conscience of (a person) by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach upon..

Offending :: Offending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Offen.

Defend :: Defend (v. t.) To repel danger or harm from; to protect; to secure against; attack; to maintain against force or argument; to uphold; to guard; as, to defend a town; to defend a cause; to defend character; to defend the absent; -- sometimes followed by from or against; as, to defend one's self from, or against, one's enemies..

Prevarication :: Prevarication (n.) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution..

Whirligig :: Whirligig (n.) A mediaeval instrument for punishing petty offenders, being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity..

To :: To (prep.) Comparison; as, three is to nine as nine is to twenty-seven; it is ten to one that you will offend him..

Fence :: Fence (n.) That which fends off attack or danger; a defense; a protection; a cover; security; shield.

Defensative :: Defensative (n.) That which serves to protect or defend.

Defensible :: Defensible (a.) Capable of being defended; as, a defensible city, or a defensible cause..

Tenable :: Tenable (a.) Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument..

Shield :: Shield (n.) Figuratively, one who protects or defends..

Defensibleness :: Defensibleness (n.) Capability of being defended; defensibility.

Beadle :: Beadle (v.) An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc..

Pleadings :: Pleadings (n. pl.) The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some single point..

Odfend :: Odfend (v. i.) To cause dislike, anger, or vexation; to displease..

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