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Attendance of a chaperon on a lady in public; protection afforded by a chaperon.

To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences; as, a charmed life. I, in my own woe charmed, Could not find death. Shak.

To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid. We were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children. 1 Thess. ii. 7.

A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without.

lized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it.

uthors, is determined less by the purity of their style than by the period at which they wrote. Brande & C. He [Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college. Macaulay.

of Egypt . . . shall cleave unto thee. Deut. xxviii. 60. Sophistry cleaves close to and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects. Cowper.

A citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron.

Condition of a client; state of being under the protection of a patron. Dryden.

A shoe, or sandal, intended to protect the feet from wet, or to increase the apparent stature, and having, therefore, a very thick sole. Cf. Chopine. In France the peasantry goes barefoot; and the middle sort . . . makes use of wooden clogs. Harvey. Clog almanac, a primitive kind of almanac or calendar, formerly used i…

Furnished with a shield, or a protective plate or shell.

Changed into, or contained in, a coagulum or a curdlike mass; curdled. Coagulated proteid (Physiol. Chem.), one of a class of bodies formed in the coagulation of a albuminous substance by heat, acids, or other agents.

A coat or covering; a layer of any substance, as a cover or protection; as, the coating of a retort or vial.

The case of silk made by spiders to protect their eggs.

s or a military post; -- officially called commissary of subsistence. [U. S.] Washington wrote to the President of Congress . . . urging the appointment of a commissary general, a quartermaster general, a commissary of musters, and a commissary of artillery. W. Irving Commissary general, an officer in charge of some sp…

Illustration by comprison; simile. [Obs.] Rhymes full of protest, of oath, and big compare. Shak. Beyond compare. See Beyond comparison, under Comparison.

a cabinet, a house, or a garden. In the midst was placed a large compartment composed of grotesque work. Carew.

reat or high, Can be concluded blest before he die. Addison. Is it concluded he shall be protector Shak.

d by in; as, the prince confides in his ministers. By thy command I rise or fall, In thy protection I confide. Byron. Judge before friendships, then confide till death. Young.

the name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves (1557) Lords of the Congregation.