Beshield
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Beshield is a verb meaning (transitive, reflexive, archaic) To shield around or about; protect; defend.
Meaning
(transitive, reflexive, archaic) To shield around or about; protect; defend.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To provide or outfit with a shield.
Example Sentences
Of course I was frightened — frightened of being struck, or beshamed, during the next tone-show — so cast about for someone to beshield me.
[…]that in that same night Olympia might behold the god Hamon lying beside her, and saying to her thereafter, 'Woman, thou hast conceived him who shall beshield thee.
Beshield thee with thy troops; find out at will Fresh instruments of war, and unknown gear; For thou shalt not scape death from this my hand, O slayer of the dames, so brave and grand.
Our bearers now began to call themselves Natal Kafirs, fearing to say they were Zulus before the young Amaswazi warriors, beplumed, beshielded, bespeared, perched about here and there in picturesque unconsciousness of their picturesqueness.
Word Forms
- beshields
- beshielding
- beshielded
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include shelter, bless, belay, bescreen, enshelter, beshroud.
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