"Shielding" is a word in ENGLISH
of Shield
still other winters average their rain months into a long, cold season of relentless sog and little color. At such times, looking out through the spattered glass, I feel, deep in some spongy, unignorable organ, that we will have floods, and damage, and losses; we will have gray till the cows come home, and there will be no more cows--they'll all just rot, drown, or simply wash away. We will have rain until the very hills dissolve. And when the dirty cotton swaddling of fog finally falls away, we will all be desperate for vital signs.
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Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of …
Read the complete definitionAn escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.
Read the complete definitionA shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also …
Read the complete definitionA small square shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet.
Read the complete definitionThe sacred shield of the Romans, said to have-fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium …
Read the complete definitionFormerly, an armor bearer, as of a knight, an esquire who bore his shield and rendered other services. In later …
Read the complete definitionIn English law. A device depicted on the (now imagi-nary) shield of one of the nobility, of which gentry is …
Read the complete definitionThe ensigns armorial of a family, consisting of figures and colors borne in shields, banners, etc., as marks of dignity …
Read the complete definitionNot furnished with shields or beds for the spores, as the thallus of certain lichens.
Read the complete definitionDivided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge.
Read the complete definitionNotched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.
Read the complete definitionHaving a shell or covering like a double shield.
Read the complete definitionA shield.
Read the complete definitionAn heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings.
Read the complete definitionA border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.
Read the complete definitionA protuberant ornament on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as …
Read the complete definitionA kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting …
Read the complete definitionTo shield; to defend.
Read the complete definitionA division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a …
Read the complete definitionHaving a charge in each of the four corners; -- said of a cross on a shield, and also of …
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