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A defender or an advocate in court; a guardian or protector.

t of determining the directions and heights of the lines of rampart with reference to the protection of the interior from exposure to an enemy's fire from any point within range, or from any works which may be erected. Farrow.

The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior. See Defilade.

The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side.

l sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover. Farrow.

A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the things, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.

inous or oily nature, supposed to be capable of soothing an inflamed nervous membrane, or protecting i

A railway station; a building for the accommodation and protection of railway passenges or freight. [U. S.]

emove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity. "The Protector was dethroned." Hume.

To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.

Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. "Divine protection." Bacon.

armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by a main armament of big guns all of the same caliber. She has a displacement of 17,900 tons at load draft, and a speed of 21 knots per hou…

sts of a balance, having a plate at one end to receive the dew, and at the other a weight protected from the deposit of dew.

A light over-garment, worn in traveling to protect the clothing from dust. [U.S.]

A cap or cover to protect the ear from cold.

A small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel, usually in the form of a projecting turret, or the like. See Castle.

f wings in the Coleoptera and some other insects, when they are thick and serve only as a protection for the posterior pair. See Coleoptera.

To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.

Suddenly appearing; arising unexpectedly; Protection granted in emergent danger. Burke. Emergent year (Chron.), the epoch or date from which any people begin to compute their time or dates; as, the emergent year of Christendom is that of the birth of Christ; the emergent year of the United States is that of the declara…

To cover over with, or as with, a mantle; to put about as a protection. [Obs.] Holland.