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Gallery :: Gallery (a.) Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery..

Casque :: Casque (n.) A piece of defensive or ornamental armor (with or without a vizor) for the head and neck; a helmet.

Fenceful :: Fenceful (a.) Affording defense; defensive.

Bracelet :: Bracelet (n.) A piece of defensive armor for the arm.

Defensively :: Defensively (adv.) On the defensive.

Defendant :: Defendant (a.) Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive..

Defensive :: Defensive (a.) Serving to defend or protect; proper for defense; opposed to offensive; as, defensive armor..

Self-defensive :: Self-defensive (a.) Defending, or tending to defend, one's own person, property, or reputation..

Weapon :: Weapon (n.) An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc..

Armory :: Armory (n.) Armor; defensive and offensive arms.

Defensive :: Defensive (a.) Carried on by resisting attack or aggression; -- opposed to offensive; as, defensive war..

Fend :: Fend (v. i.) To act on the defensive, or in opposition; to resist; to parry; to shift off..

Helmet :: Helmet (n.) A defensive covering for the head. See Casque, Headpiece, Morion, Sallet, and Illust. of Beaver..

Barbed :: Barbed (a.) Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded ( which is the proper form..

Defensive :: Defensive (n.) That which defends; a safeguard.

Barded :: Barded (p.a.) Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse.

Intrenchment :: Intrenchment (n.) Any defensive work consisting of at least a trench or ditch and a parapet made from the earth thrown up in making such a ditch.

Girandole :: Girandole (n.) A series of chambers in defensive mines.

Fortify :: Fortify (v. i.) To raise defensive works.

Parry :: Parry (n.) A warding off of a thrust or blow, as in sword and bayonet exercises or in boxing; hence, figuratively, a defensive movement in debate or other intellectual encounter..

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