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verb

Shield v. t. (past & past part. shielded; pres. part. shielding)

To cover with, or as with, a shield; to cover from danger; to defend; to protect from assault or injury. "Shouts of applause ran ringing through the field, To see the son the vanquished father shield." "A woman's shape doth shield thee."

To ward off; to keep off or out. "They brought with them their usual weeds, fit to shield the cold to which they had been inured."

To avert, as a misfortune; hence, as a supplicatory exclamation, forbid! (Obs.) "God shield that it should so befall." "God shield I should disturb devotion!"

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Etymology of 'Shielding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shielding" Quotes from Famous Books

... ceased; for a moment the record player hummed voicelessly. Loud in the silence, a photocell acted with a double click, opening one segment of the sun shielding and closing another at the opposite side of the dome. Space Commodore Alex Napier glanced up from his desk and out at the harshly angular landscape of Xerxes and the blackness of airless space beyond the disquietingly close horizon. Then he picked up his pipe ...

— Little Fuzzy • Henry Beam Piper

... almost on the crest of the high ground. There she stood for a moment, one hand clutching at her errant hair, the other shielding her eyes from the sting of the rain. He heard her cry, as Heritage had heard her, but since the wind was blowing towards him the sound came louder and fuller. Again she cried, and then stood motionless with her hands above her head. It was only for an instant, for the next he saw she had turned ...

— Huntingtower • John Buchan

... Dupre was at no loss for food. Trout, sparkling and fresh from the icy water, roasted on forked sticks stuck in the ground beside a bed of coals, made fare for an epicure, and the young trapper, watching Maren as she knelt to tend them, shielding her face with her hand, thought wistfully of a cabin where the fire leaped on the hearth and where this woman passed back and forth at ...

— The Maid of the Whispering Hills • Vingie E. Roe

... give the doctor the impression that his innocence was by no means clear, and that the idea of shielding a murderer was ...

— The Crime of the French Cafe and Other Stories • Nicholas Carter

... the dial beneath the counter, warned them that they were as cut off from the luxuriance outside as if they were viewing a scene on Mars or Sargol from their present position. To go beyond the shielding walls of the spacer into that riotous green world would sentence them to death as surely as if the Patrol was without, with a flamer trained on their hatch. There was no escape from that radiation—it would be in the air one breathed, strike ...

— Plague Ship • Andre Norton

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