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To join, as two coats of arms on one shield, palewise; hence, to join in honorable mention. Ordered the admission of St. Patrick to the same to be matched and impaled with the blessed Virgin in the honor thereof. Fuller.

The division of a shield palewise, or by a vertical line, esp. for the purpose of putting side by side the arms of husband and wife. See Impale, 3.

admitting the passage of other bodies; not to be entered; impervious; as, an impenetrable shield. Highest woods impenetrable To star or sunlight. Milton.

A device on a shield or seal, or used as a bookplate or the like. [Written also imprese and impress.] My impresa to your lordship; a swain Flying to a laurel for shelter. J. Webster.

A device. See Impresa. Cussans. To describe . . . emblazoned shields, Impresses quaint. Milton.

As a term of disgrace, sometimes annexed to a sentence when an officer has been cashiered and rendered incapable of serving his country.

A small escutcheon borne within a shield.

a piece of work, and having hard steel surfaces to guide a tool, as a drill, or to form a shield or templet to work to, as in filing.

A strap used to fasten together parts of armor, to hold the shield by, and the like. Fairholt.

, or title, esp. one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon an heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration. Golden legend. See under Golden.

iamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil.

Having many folds, layers, or plates; as, a manifolded shield. [Obs.]

A musket-proof shield of rope, wood, or metal, which is sometimes used for the protection of sappers or riflemen while attacking a fortress, or of gunners at embrasures; -- now commonly written mantlet.

ving bulk and weight ot substance; ponderous; bulky and heavy; weight; heavy; as, a massy shield; a massy rock. Your swords are now too massy for your strengths, And will not be uplifted. Shak. Yawning rocks in massy fragments fly. Pope.

To supply with food. [Obs.] Tusser. His shield well lined, his horses meated well. Chapman.

A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold.

him that ordereth his conversation aright. Ps. 1. 23. Warriors old with ordered spear and shield. Milton.

A bearing, in the form of a fillet, round the shield, within, but at some distance from, the border.

A shield of basket work formerly used by archers as a shelter from the enemy's missiles.

A large shield covering the whole body, carried by a pavisor, who sometimes screened also an archer with it. [Written also pavais, pavese, and pavesse.] Fairholt.