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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shielding" Quotes from Famous Books

... maiden looked at him with stealthy glance, holding her bright veil aside, her heart smouldering with pain; and her soul creeping like a dream flitted in his track as he went. So they passed forth from the palace sorely troubled. And Chalciope, shielding herself from the wrath of Aeetes, had gone quickly to her chamber with her sons. And Medea likewise followed, and much she brooded in her soul all the cares that the Loves awaken. And before her eyes the vision still appeared—himself what like he was, with what vesture he was clad, what ...

— The Argonautica • Apollonius Rhodius

... standing tall and straight before her. "I acted what seems now a contemptible part—but I had to know whom you were protecting, whom you suspected of killing Spencer—I thought—forgive me—your father guilty. Until you said last night that you were shielding me, I had no idea of such a possibility; then I jumped to the conclusion that you had seen me in this house on Tuesday night, and imagined you were the person creeping up to the attic. Then, then—God help me!—came the ...

— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln

... freedom and popularity. He danced well; when we went to fandangos together his agility and the audacity of his figures always procured him the prettiest partners, his professed sentiments, I presume, shielding him from subsequent jealousies, heartburnings, or envy. I have a vivid recollection of him in the mysteries of the SEMICUACUA, a somewhat corybantic dance which left much to the invention of the performers, and very little to ...

— Selected Stories • Bret Harte

... middle of a word, for which he may have received but half a black stroke from the recording angel. He wheeled toward the street, and, shielding his inflamed eyes with his hand, gazed downward in a stricken silence. From that moment Mr. Vanrevel's instructions to his followers were of a decorum at which not the meekest Sunday-school scholar dare ...

— The Two Vanrevels • Booth Tarkington

... stepped aside, forming two separate groups. Conrad placed himself behind a huge poplar, capable of shielding ...

— A Hungarian Nabob • Maurus Jokai

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