Definition of fend

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

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Defendant :: Defendant (a.) Making defense.
Scandal :: Scandal (v. t.) To scandalize; to offend.
Fender :: Fender (v. t. & i.) One who or that which defends or protects by warding off har.
Mole :: Mole (n.) A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself..
Apologetical :: Apologetical (a.) Defending by words or arguments; said or written in defense, or by way of apology; regretfully excusing; as, an apologetic essay..
Petitionee :: Petitionee (n.) A person cited to answer, or defend against, a petition..
Defensible :: Defensible (a.) Capable of being defended; as, a defensible city, or a defensible cause..
Fortification :: Fortification (n.) The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against an enemy.
Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court..
Prevaricate :: Prevaricate (v. i.) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution..
Offenseless :: Offenseless (a.) Unoffending; inoffensive.
Cognizor :: Cognizor (n.) One who acknowledged the right of the plaintiff or cognizee in a fine; the defendant.
Advocate :: Advocate (n.) One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth..
Offended :: Offended (imp. & p. p.) of Offen.
Offending :: Offending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Offen.
Fendliche :: Fendliche (a.) Fiendlike.
Coffer :: Coffer (n.) A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire..
Defend :: Defend (v. t.) To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.
Prophylactic :: Prophylactic (n.) A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.
Joinder :: Joinder (v. t.) A joining of parties as plaintiffs or defendants in a suit.
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