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A circular shield carried by foot soldiers.

A small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

th covered with caoutchouc for excluding water or moisture. -- Rubber dam (Dentistry), a shield of thin sheet rubber clasped around a tooth to exclude saliva from the tooth.

The willow; willow twigs. [Poetic] Tennyson. And bend the pliant sallow to a shield. Fawkes. The sallow knows the basketmaker's thumb. Emerson.

In the manner of a saltire; -- said especially of the blazoning of a shield divided by two lines drawn in the direction of a bend and a bend sinister, and crossing at the center.

To engrave, as upon a shield. [R.] Spenser.

or cuts off inconvience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen. Your leavy screens throw down. Shak. Some ambitious men seem as screens to princes in matters of danger and envy. Bacon.

Shield money; commutation of service for a sum of money. See Escuage.

Of or pertaining to a shield. A good example of these scutal monstrosities. Cussans.

An escutcheon; an emblazoned shield. Bacon. The corpse lay in state, with all the pomp of scutcheons, wax lights, black hangings, and mutes. Macaulay.

Emblazoned on or as a shield. Scutcheoned panes in cloisters old. Lowell.

A small shield. [Obs.] Skelton.

sca having a heart with two auricles and one ventricle. The shell may be either spiral or shieldlike.

Having the gills protected by a shieldlike shell; of or pertaining to the Scutibranchiata. -- n.

Carrying a shield or buckler.

Shield-shaped; scutate.

An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; -- carried chiefly by the heavy- armed infantry.

Half hidden or half covered; said of the head of an insect when half covered by the shield of the thorax.

To be a shelter for; to provide with a shelter; to cover from injury or annoyance; to shield; to protect. Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head. Dryden. You have no convents . . . in which such persons may be received and sheltered. Southey.

arate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered. There shiver shafts upon shields thick. Chaucer The natural world, should gravity once cease, . . . would instantly shiver into millions of atoms. Woodward.