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a.
Defending, or tending to defend, one's own person, property, or reputation.
n.
A defensive cell containing a minute rodlike structure which may be expelled. Such cells are found in certain Turbellaria.
v. i.
To act on the defensive with a weapon.
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.
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.
a.
Affording protection; sheltering; defensive.
a.
Serving to defend or protect; proper for defense; opposed to offensive; as, defensive armor.
n.
The representation of such a memorial, as on a medal; esp. (Arch.), an ornament representing a group of arms and military weapons, offensive and defensive.
n.
A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
v. t.
A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification.
n.
A defensive covering for the head. See Casque, Headpiece, Morion, Sallet, and Illust. of Beaver.
n.
Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering.
n.
A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard.
a.
Making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence, used in attacking; -- opposed to defensive; as, an offensive war; offensive weapons.
n.
The state or posture of one who offends or makes attack; aggressive attitude; the act of the attacking party; -- opposed to defensive.
n.
A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor.
a.
Carried on by resisting attack or aggression; -- opposed to offensive; as, defensive war.
n.
One of the special defensive zooids of certain hydroids. They have the form of long, slender tentacles, and bear lasso cells.
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.
adv.
On the defensive.
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