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Shield

noun

A protective covering or structure.

Armor carried on the arm to intercept blows. Synonym: buckler.

Hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles. Synonyms: carapace, cuticle, shell.

verb

(past & past part. shielded; pres. part. shielding)

Protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm. Synonym: screen.

Hold back a thought or feeling about. Synonyms: harbor, harbour.

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"Shield" Quotes from Famous Books

... morning we met a Government runner, a proud youth, young, lithe, with many ornaments and bangles; his red skin glistening; the long blade of his spear, bound around with a red strip to signify his office, slanting across his shoulder; his buffalo hide shield slung from it over his back; the letter he was bearing stuck in a cleft stick and carried proudly before him as a priest carries a cross to the heathen-in the pictures. He was swinging along at a brisk ...

— The Land of Footprints • Stewart Edward White

... them ask for peace. We should keep citizens out of their country. The class of men sent among them as agents go there for no good purpose. They take positions for the sole purpose of making money out of the Indians by swindling them, and so long as they can do this they shield them ...

— The Battle of Atlanta - and Other Campaigns, Addresses, Etc. • Grenville M. Dodge

... lately became a Christian Scientist. When I have met her before, I have thought her a curiously guarded personality, appearing to live a secret and absorbing life of her own, impenetrable, and holding up a shield of conventionality against the world. To-night she laid down her shield, and I saw the beating of a very pure and loving heart. The text of her talk was that we should never allow ourselves to believe in our limitations, because they did not really exist. ...

— The Altar Fire • Arthur Christopher Benson

... shield be cast, Till wrath and danger are o'erpast, And tribulation's bitter blast. Have ...

— Hymns of the Greek Church - Translated with Introduction and Notes • John Brownlie

... were as base as the intrigues themselves, but he also knew that the world usually sides with the government against the individual, and that a man's reputation is rarely strong enough to maintain itself unsullied in a foreign land when his own government stretches forth its hand, not to shield, but to stab ...

— Memoir of John Lothrop Motley, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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