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Shield   /ʃild/   Listen
noun
Shield  n.  
1.
A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See Buckler. "Now put your shields before your hearts and fight, With hearts more proof than shields."
2.
Anything which protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection. "My council is my shield."
3.
Figuratively, one who protects or defends. "Fear not, Abram; I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward."
4.
(Bot.) In lichens, a Hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.
5.
(Her.) The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms. Cf. Lozenge.
6.
(Mining & Tunneling) A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.
7.
A spot resembling, or having the form of, a shield. "Bespotted as with shields of red and black."
8.
A coin, the old French crown, or écu, having on one side the figure of a shield. (Obs.)
Shield fern (Bot.), any fern of the genus Aspidium, in which the fructifications are covered with shield-shaped indusia; called also wood fern.


verb
Shield  v. t.  (past & past part. shielded; pres. part. shielding)  
1.
To cover with, or as with, a shield; to cover from danger; to defend; to protect from assault or injury. "Shouts of applause ran ringing through the field, To see the son the vanquished father shield." "A woman's shape doth shield thee."
2.
To ward off; to keep off or out. "They brought with them their usual weeds, fit to shield the cold to which they had been inured."
3.
To avert, as a misfortune; hence, as a supplicatory exclamation, forbid! (Obs.) "God shield that it should so befall." "God shield I should disturb devotion!"





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"Shield" Quotes from Famous Books



... punish more severely than the case warrants," said he, "and then she can shield herself ...
— The Sable Cloud - A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) • Nehemiah Adams
... go," said Captain Putnam, at length. "Your efforts to shield Ritter do you no credit." And Coulter and Paxton slunk out of the office silently and much worried over the thought of what punishment they might receive for trying to deceive the master ...
— The Mystery at Putnam Hall - The School Chums' Strange Discovery • Arthur M. Winfield
... and feeling that dwell in the heart, Where in manners enchanting no blemish we trace, But the soul keeps the promise we had from the face; Sure philosophy, reason, and coldness must prove Defences unequal to shield us from love.' ...
— The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims - Volume I (of II) • Andrew Steinmetz
... would come; till then he had to wait in patience, and during the long vigil he would keep his shield clean of rust. He would have to think, to weigh his decisions, to keep before his eyes the goal towards which his ...
— The Loom of Youth • Alec Waugh
... gentleness which makes such words and tears omnipotent over a loving-hearted man. Lydgate drew his chair near to hers and pressed her delicate head against his cheek with his powerful tender hand. He only caressed her; he did not say anything; for what was there to say? He could not promise to shield her from the dreaded wretchedness, for he could see no sure means of doing so. When he left her to go out again, he told himself that it was ten times harder for her than for him: he had a life away ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot


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