Crossword-Solution: SHIELD
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
| Shield | n. | Anything which protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection. |
| Shield | n. | Figuratively, one who protects or defends. |
| Shield | n. | In lichens, a Hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci. |
| Shield | n. | The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms. Cf. Lozenge. See Illust. of Escutcheon. |
| Shield | n. | A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses. |
| Shield | n. | A spot resembling, or having the form of, a shield. |
| Shield | n. | A coin, the old French crown, or ecu, having on one side the figure of a shield. |
| Shield | n. | To cover with, or as with, a shield; to cover from danger; to defend; to protect from assault or injury. |
| Shield | n. | To ward off; to keep off or out. |
| Shield | n. | To avert, as a misfortune; hence, as a supplicatory exclamation, forbid! |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SHIELD | anagram | DELISH, HILDES |
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Sentences with SHIELD (5)
There he lay in all his armor; On each side a shield to guard him, Plates of bone upon his forehead, Down his sides and back and shoulders Plates of bone with spines projecting Painted was he with his war-paints, Stripes of yellow, red, and azure, Spots of brown and spots of sable; And he lay there on the bottom, Fanning with his fins of purple, As above him Hiawatha In his birch canoe came sailing, With his fishing-line of cedar.
Arme, Warriours, Arme for fight, the foe at hand, Whom fled we thought, will save us long pursuit This day, fear not his flight; so thick a Cloud He comes, and settl’d in his face I see Sad resolution and secure: let each His Adamantine coat gird well, and each Fit well his Helme, gripe fast his orbed Shield, Born eevn or high, for this day will pour down, If I conjecture aught, no drizling showr, But ratling storm of Arrows barbd with fire.
The slightest inattention to these was unpardonable, and was visited upon those, under whose care they were placed, with the severest punishment; no excuse could shield them, if the colonel only suspected any want of attention to his horses—a supposition which he frequently indulged, and one which, of course, made the office of old and young Barney a very trying one.
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The force of the stream had, until very lately, been received upon some loose stones spread thereabout, which had acted as a shield to the soil under the onset.
Quotes with SHIELD (3)
It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer contradiction, to be misjudged by men even though we do well and mean well. These things help us to be humble and shield us from vainglory. When to all outward appearances men give us no credit, when they do not think well of us, then we are more inclined to seek God Who sees our hearts. The…
Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
We all need a technological detox; we need to throw away our phones and computers instead of using them as our pseudo-defence system for anything that comes our way. We need to be bored and not have anything to use to shield the boredom away from us. We need to be lonely and see what it is we really feel when we are. If we continue to distract ourselves so we never have to face the realities in front of us, when the time comes and you are faced with something bigger than what…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 69 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).