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

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

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

Plating :: Plating (n.) A coating or defensive armor of metal (usually steel) plates.

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

Indefensive :: Indefensive (a.) Defenseless.

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

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

Cuish :: Cuish (n.) Defensive armor for the thighs.

Shield :: Shield (n.) A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, -- formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See Buckler..

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

Acontia :: Acontia (n. pl.) Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniae when irritated..

Armor :: Armor (n.) Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle.

Mail :: Mail (n.) A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor.

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..

Mail :: Mail (n.) Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering..

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.

Defence :: Defence (n.) Act or skill in making defense; defensive plan or policy; practice in self defense, as in fencing, boxing, etc..

Panoply :: Panoply (n.) Defensive armor in general; a full suit of defensive armor.

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