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Thoracostraca :: Thoracostraca (a.) An extensive division of Crustacea, having a dorsal shield or carapec/ //niting all, or nearly all, of the thoracic somites to the head. It includes the crabs, lobsters, shrimps, and similar species..

Testudo :: Testudo (n.) A cover or screen which a body of troops formed with their shields or targets, by holding them over their heads when standing close to each other. This cover resembled the back of a tortoise, and served to shelter the men from darts, stones, and other missiles. A similar defense was sometimes formed of boards, and moved on wheels..

Inescutcheon :: Inescutcheon (n.) A small escutcheon borne within a shield.

Shieldtail :: Shieldtail (n.) Any species of small burrowing snakes of the family Uropeltidae, native of Ceylon and Southern Asia. They have a small mouth which can not be dilated..

Targeteer :: Targeteer (n.) One who is armed with a target or shield.

Enshield :: Enshield (a.) Shielded; enshielded.

Thyroid :: Thyroid (a.) Shaped like an oblong shield; shield-shaped; as, the thyroid cartilage..

Target :: Target (n.) A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war..

Scutal :: Scutal (a.) Of or pertaining to a shield.

Clypeiform :: Clypeiform (a.) Shield-shaped; clypeate.

Peltiform :: Peltiform (a.) Shieldlike, with the outline nearly circular; peltate..

Esquire :: Esquire (n.) Originally, a shield-bearer or armor-bearer, an attendant on a knight; in modern times, a title of dignity next in degree below knight and above gentleman; also, a title of office and courtesy; -- often shortened to squire..

Targe :: Targe (n.) A shield or target.

Escuage :: Escuage (n.) Service of the shield, a species of knight service by which a tenant was bound to follow his lord to war, at his own charge. It was afterward exchanged for a pecuniary satisfaction. Called also scutage..

Squire :: Squire (n.) A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.

Mantelet :: Mantelet (n.) A musket-proof shield of rope, wood, or metal, which is sometimes used for the protection of sappers or riflemen while attacking a fortress, or of gunners at embrasures; -- now commonly written mantlet..

Protection :: Protection (n.) That which protects or preserves from injury; a defense; a shield; a refuge.

Bevilled :: Bevilled (a.) Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.

Umbo :: Umbo (n.) The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike..

Carapace :: Carapace (n.) The thick shell or shield which covers the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals..

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