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loating battery (Mil.), a battery erected on rafts or the hulls of ships, chiefly for the defense of a coast or the bombardment of a place. -- Floating bridge. (a) A bridge consisting of rafts or timber, with a floor of plank, supported wholly by the water; a bateau bridge. See Bateau. (b) (Mil.) A kind of double brid…

Defense in front. [Obs.]

unded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification. Detached works, depending solely on their own strength, belong to the class of works termed forts. Farrow.

ent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.

A defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.

[Fraise a kind of defense; also Friz.) A kind of small ruffle. Halliwell.

r fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house. That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all…

Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive galery.

r. -- To stand in the gap, to expose one's self for the protection of something; to make defense against any assailing danger; to take the place of a fallen defender or supporter. -- To stop a gap, to secure a weak point; to repair a defect.

To place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town.

restricted. -- To stand in the gate, or gates, to occupy places or advantage, power, or defense.

, in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.

g the ball over the line between the goal posts. Goal keeper, the player charged with the defense of the goal.

To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety; as, careful persons guard against mistakes.

Without a guard or defense; unguarded. Chapman.

Pertaining to athletic exercises intended for health, defense, or diversion; -- said of games or exercises, as running, leaping, wrestling, throwing the discus, the javelin, etc.; also, pertaining to disciplinary exercises for the intellect; athletic; as, gymnastic exercises, contests, etc.

Fig.: To equip or furnish for defense. Dr. H. More.

A cap of defense; especially, an open one, as distinguished from the closed helmet of the Middle Ages.

ate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. Hearten those that fight in your defense. Shak.

To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in). "England, hedged in with the main." Shak.