Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. To keep off; to prevent from entering; to ward off; to shut out.
2. With fern beneath to fend the bitter cold.
3. It is usually followed by off; as, to fend off blows.
4. To fend off a boat or vessel, is to prevent its running against another, or against a wharf, etc., with too much violence.
To keep off; to prevent from entering or hitting; to ward off; to shut out; -- often with off; as, to fend off blows.
Kept off; warded off; shut out.
1. That which defends; an utensil employed to hinder coals of fire from rolling forward to the floor.
1. One who or that which defends or protects by warding off harm
2. A screen to prevent coals or sparks of an open fire from escaping to the floor.
3. Anything serving as a cushion to lessen the shock when a vessel comes in contact with another vessel or a wharf.
4. A screen to protect a carriage from mud thrown off the wheels: also, a splashboard.
5. Anything set up to protect an exposed angle, as of a house, from damage by carriage wheels.
Keeping or warding off.
Defense Roget’s Thesaurus §717
N. defense, protection, guard, ward, shielding, propugnation|, preservation, guardianship, area defense, site defense, self-defense, self-preservation, resistance, safeguard, balistraria, bunker, screen, camouflage, fortification, munition, muniment, trench, foxhole, bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment, kila, dike, dyke, parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment, earth work, field-work, fence, wall dead wall, contravallation, paling, palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar, barrier, barricade, boom, portcullis, chevaux de frise, abatis, abattis, abbatis, vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp, escarp, counter-scarp, glacis, casemate, vallation, vanfos, buttress, abutment, shore, breastwork, banquette, curtain, mantlet, bastion, redan, ravelin, vauntmure, advance work, horn work, outwork, barbacan, barbican, redoubt, fort-elage, fort-alice, lines, loophole, machicolation, sally port, hold, stronghold, fastness, asylum, keep, donjon, dungeon, fortress, citadel, capitol, castle, tower of strength, tower of strength, fort, barracoon, pah, sconce, martello tower, peelhouse, blockhouse, rath, wooden walls, bulletproof vest, armored vest, buffer, corner stone, fender, apron, mask, gauntlet, thimble, carapace, armor, shield, buckler, aegis, breastplate, backplate, cowcatcher, face guard, scutum, cuirass, habergeon, mail, coat of mail, brigandine, hauberk, lorication, helmet, helm, bassinet, salade, heaume, morion, murrion, armet, cabaset, vizor, casquetel, siege cap, headpiece, casque, pickelhaube, vambrace, shako, bearskin, panoply, truncheon, garrison, picket, piquet, defender, protector, guardian, bodyguard, champion, knight-errant, paladin, propugner, bulletproof window, hardened site
V. defend, forfend, fend, shield, screen, shroud, engarrison, fend round, fence, entrench, intrench, guard, guard against, take care of, bear harmless, fend off, keep off, ward off, beat off, beat back, hinder, parry, repel, propugn, put to flight, give a warm reception to, hold at bay, keep at bay, keep arm's length, stand on the defensive, act on the defensive, show fight, maintain one's ground, stand one's ground, stand by, hold one's own, bear the brunt, stand the brunt, fall back upon, hold, stand in the gap
Adj. defending, defensive, mural|, armed, armed at all points, armed cap-a-pie, armed to the teeth, panoplied, iron-plated, ironclad, loopholed, castellated, machicolated, casemated, defended, proof against, armored, ballproof|, bulletproof, hardened
Adv. defensively, on the defense, on the defensive, in defense, at bay, pro aris et focis
Int. no surrender, phr, defense not defiance, dieu defend le droit, fidei defensor
No Bible verses found for "fend".