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SHIELD, v.t.

1. To cover, as with a shield; to cover from dasnger; to defend; to protect; to secure form assault or injury.

To see the son the vanquish'd father shield. Dryden.

Hear one that comes to shield his injur'd honor. Smith.



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SHIELD, v.t.

1. To cover, as with a shield; to cover from dasnger; to defend; to protect; to secure form assault or injury.

To see the son the vanquish'd father shield. Dryden.

Hear one that comes to shield his injur'd honor. Smith.


SHIELD, n. [Sax. scyld; Sw. sköld; Dan. skiold, skildt; D. and G. schild. This word is from covering, defending, Sw. skyla, to cover; or from separating, Sax. scylan, Dan. skiller, to separate. Protection is deduced from either, and indeed both may be radically one. See Shelter. The L. scutum coincides in elements with the Sax. sceadan, to separate, and clypeus with the Gr. καλυπτω, to cover.]

  1. A broad piece of defensive armor; a buckler; used in war for the protection of the body. The shields of the ancients were of different shapes and sizes, triangular, square, oval, &c., made of leather, or wood covered with leather, and borne on the left arm. This species of armor was a good defense against arrows, darts, spears, &c. but would be no protection against bullets.
  2. Defense; shelter; protection; or the person that defends or protects; as a chief, the ornament and shield of the nation. Fear not, Abram; I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. – Gen. xv.
  3. In heraldry, the escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms.

SHIELD, v.t.

  1. To cover, as with a shield; to cover from danger; to defend; to protect; to secure from assault or injury. To see the son the vanquished father shield. – Dryden. Hear one that comes to shield his injur'd honor. – Smith.
  2. To ward off; to defend against; as, clothes to shield one from cold.

Shield
  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.     Shak.

  2. 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.     Dryden.

    A woman's shape doth shield thee. Shak.

  3. Anything which protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.

    "My council is my shield." Shak.
  4. 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. Spenser.

  5. Figuratively, one who protects or defends.

    Fear not, Abram; I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. Gen. xv. 1.

  6. To avert, as a misfortune; hence, as a supplicatory exclamation, forbid!

    [Obs.]

    God shield that it should so befall. Chaucer.

    God shield I should disturb devotion! Shak.

  7. In lichens, a Hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.
  8. The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms. Cf. Lozenge. See Illust. of Escutcheon.
  9. A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.
  10. A spot resembling, or having the form of, a shield.

    "Bespotted as with shields of red and black." Spenser.
  11. A coin, the old French crown, or é]cu, having on one side the figure of a shield.

    [Obs.] Chaucer.

    Shield fern (Bot.), any fern of the genus Aspidium, in which the fructifications are covered with shield-shaped indusia; -- called also wood fern. See Illust. of Indusium.

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Shield

SHIELD, verb transitive

1. To cover, as with a shield; to cover from dasnger; to defend; to protect; to secure form assault or injury.

To see the son the vanquish'd father shield. Dryden.

Hear one that comes to shield his injur'd honor. Smith.

2. To ward off; to defend against; as clothes shield one from the cold.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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TAT'TER, v.t. To rend or tear into rags. [Not used except in the participle.]

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