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Strepent :: Strenuous (a.) Eagerly pressing or urgent; zealous; ardent; earnest; bold; valiant; intrepid; as, a strenuous advocate for national rights; a strenuous reformer; a strenuous defender of his country..

Ward :: Ward (n.) To defend by walls, fortifications, etc..

Sillon :: Sillon (n.) A work raised in the middle of a wide ditch, to defend it..

Defensative :: Defensative (n.) That which serves to protect or defend.

Muniment :: Muniment (n.) That which supports or defends; stronghold; place or means of defense; munition; assistance.

Rejoin :: Rejoin (v. i.) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication..

Eudoxian :: Eudoxian (n.) A follower of Eudoxius, patriarch of Antioch and Constantinople in the 4th century, and a celebrated defender of the doctrines of Arius..

Avoid :: Avoid (a.) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter..

Defend :: Defend (v. t.) To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.

Nonappearance :: Nonappearance (n.) Default of apperance, as in court, to prosecute or defend; failure to appear..

Garnishment :: Garnishment (n.) Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the money or deliver the goods to the defendant, but to appear in court and give information as garnishee..

Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered..

Fortification :: Fortification (n.) The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against an enemy.

Fenci-ble :: Fenci-ble (a.) Capable of being defended, or of making or affording defense..

Stump :: Stump (n.) To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; -- sometimes with out..

Process :: Process (n.) The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to answer to the action; -- a generic term for writs of the class called judicial..

Counsel :: Counsel (n.) One who gives advice, especially in legal matters; one professionally engaged in the trial or management of a cause in court; also, collectively, the legal advocates united in the management of a case; as, the defendant has able counsel..

Recompensation :: Recompensation (n.) Used to denote a case where a set-off pleaded by the defendant is met by a set-off pleaded by the plaintiff.

Replication :: Replication (n.) The reply of the plaintiff, in matters of fact, to the defendant's plea..

Propugn :: Propugn (v. t.) To contend for; to defend; to vindicate.

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