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#705. Facility. -- N. facility, ease; easiness &c. adj.; capability;
feasibility &c. (practicabiity) 470; flexibility, pliancy &c. 324;
smoothness &c. 255.
plain sailing, smooth sailing, straight sailing; mere child's play,
holiday task; cinch [U.S.].
smooth water, fair wind; smooth royal road; clear coast, clear stage;
tabula rasa; full play &c. (freedom) 748.
disencumbrance, disentanglement; deoppilation|!; permission &c. 760.
V. be easy &c. adj.; go on smoothly, run smoothly; have full play &c.
n.; go on all fours, run on all fours; obey the helm, work well.
flow with the stream, swim with the stream, drift with the stream, go
with the stream, flow with the tide, drift with the tide; see one's way;
have all one's own way, have the game in one's own hands; walk over the
course, win at a canter; make light of, make nothing of, make no bones of.
be at home in &c. (skillful) 698.
render easy &c. adj.; facilitate, smooth, ease; popularize; lighten,
lighten the labor; free, clear; disencumber, disembarrass, disentangle,
disengage; deobstruct, unclog, extricate, unravel; untie the knot, cut the
knot; disburden, unload, exonerate, emancipate, free from, deoppilate|!;
humor &c. (aid) 707; lubricate &c. 332; relieve &c. 834.
leave a hole to creep out of, leave a loophole, leave the matter open;
give the reins to, give full play, give full swing; make way for; open the
door to, open the way, prepare the ground, smooth the ground, clear the
ground, open the way, open the path, open the road; pave the way, bridge
over; permit &c. 760.
Adj. easy, facile; feasible &c (practicable) 470; easily managed,
easily accomplished; within reach, accessible, easy of access, for the
million, open to.
manageable, wieldy; towardly, tractable; submissive; yielding,
ductile; suant; pliant &c. (soft) 324; glib, slippery; smooth &c. 255; on
friction wheels, on velvet.
unembarrassed, disburdened, unburdened, disencumbered, unencumbered,
disembarrassed; exonerated; unloaded, unobstructed, untrammeled;
unrestrained &c. (free) 748; at ease, light.
at home; quite at home; in one's element, in smooth water.
Adv. easily &c. adj.; readily, smoothly, swimmingly, on easy terms,
single-handed.
Phr. touch and go.

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#706. Hindrance. -- N. prevention, preclusion, obstruction, stoppage;
embolus; interruption, interception, interclusion|; hindrance, impedition|;
retardment, retardation; embarrassment, oppilation|!; coarctation,
stricture, restriction; restraint &c. 751; inhibition &c. 761; blockade
&c. (closure) 261.
interference, interposition; obtrusion; discouragement,
discountenance.
impediment, let, obstacle, obstruction, knot, knag; check, hitch,
contretemps, screw loose, grit in the oil.
bar, stile, barrier;
turnstile, turnpike; gate, portcullis.
beaver dam; trocha; barricade &c. (defense) 717; wall, dead wall,
breakwater, groyne; bulkhead, block, buffer; stopper &c. 263; boom, dam,
weir, burrock.
drawback, objection; stumbling-block, stumbling-stone; lion in the
path, snag; snags and sawyers.
encumbrance, incumbrance; clog, skid, shoe, spoke; drag, drag chain,
drag weight; stay, stop; preventive, propylactic; load, burden, fardel,
onus, millstone round one's neck, impedimenta; dead weight; lumber, pack;
nightmare, Ephialtes, incubus, old man of the sea; remora.
difficulty &c. 704; insuperable &c. 471; obstacle; estoppel [law]; ill
wind; head wind &c. (opposition) 708; trammel, tether &c. (means of
restraint) 752; hold back, counterpoise.
damper, wet blanket, hinderer, marplot, killjoy, interloper.
trail of a red herring; opponent &c. 710.
V. hinder, impede, filibuster [U.S.], impedite, embarrass.
keep off, stave off, ward off; obviate; avert, antevert|; turn aside,
draw off, prevent, forefend, nip in the bud; retard, slacken, check, let;
counteract, countercheck; preclude, debar, foreclose, estop; inhibit &c.
761; shackle &c. (restrain) 751; restrict.
obstruct, stop, stay, bar, bolt, lock; block, block up; choke off;
belay, barricade; block the way, stop the way; forelay; dam up &c. (close)
261; put on the brake &c. n.; scotch the wheel, lock the wheel, put a spoke
in the wheel; put a stop to &c. 142; traverse, contravene; interrupt,
intercept; oppose &c. 708; hedge in, hedge round; cut off; inerclude|.
interpose, interfere, intermeddle &c. 682.
cramp, hamper; clog, clog the wheels; cumber; encumber, incumber;
handicap; choke; saddle with, load with; overload, lay; lumber, trammel,
tie one's hands, put to inconvenience; incommode, discommode; discompose;
hustle, corner, drive into a corner.
run foul of, fall foul of; cross the path of, break in upon.
thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil; faze, feaze, feeze [U.S.];
baffle, snub, override, circumvent; defeat &c. 731; spike guns &c. (render
useless) 645; spoil, mar, clip the wings of; cripple &c. (injure) 659; put
an extinguisher on; damp; dishearten &c (dissuade) 616; discountenance,
throw cold water on, spoil sport; lay a wet blanket, throw a wet blanket
on; cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails,
undermine; be in the way of, stand in the way of; act as a drag; hang like
a millstone round one's neck.
Adj. hindering &c. v.; obstructive, obstruent; impeditive, impedient;
intercipient|; prophylactic &c. (remedial) 662; impedimentary.
in the way of, unfavorable; onerous, burdensome; cumbrous, cumbersome;
obtrusive.
hindered &c v.; windbound, waterlogged, heavy laden; hard pressed.
unassisted &c. (see assist &c. 707); singlehanded, alone; deserted &c.
624.
Phr. occurrrenit nubes.

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#707. Aid. -- N. aid, aidance; assistance, help, opitulation|, succor;
support, lift, advance, furtherance, promotion; coadjuvancy &c.
(cooperation) 709.
patronage, championship, countenance, favor, interest, advocacy.
sustentation, subvention, alimentation, nutrition, nourishment;
eutrophy; manna in the wilderness; food &c. 298; means &c. 632.
ministry, ministration; subministration; accommodation.
relief, rescue; help at a dead lift; supernatural aid; deus ex
machina.
supplies, reenforcements, succors, contingents, recruits; support &c.
(physical) 215; adjunct, ally &c. (helper) 711.
V. aid, assist, help, succor, lend one's aid; come to the aid &c. n.
of; contribute, subscribe to; bring aid, give aid, furnish aid, afford aid,
supply aid &c. n.; give a helping hand, stretch a hand, lend a helping
hand, lend a hand, bear a helping hand, hold out a hand, hold out a helping
hand; give one a life, give one a cast, give one a turn; take by the hand,
take in tow;help a lame dog over a stile, lend wings to.
relieve, rescue; set up, set agoing, set on one's legs; bear through,
pull through; give new life to, be the making of; reenforce, recruit; set
forward, put forward, push forward; give a lift, give a shove, give an
impulse to; promote, further, forward, advance
expedite, speed, quicken, hasten.
support, sustain, uphold, prop, hold up, bolster.
cradle, nourish; nurture, nurse, dry nurse, suckle, put out to nurse;
manure, cultivate, force; foster, cherish, foment; feed the flame, fan the
flame.
serve; do service to, tender to, pander to; administer to, subminister
to, minister to; tend, attend, wait on; take care of &c. 459; entertain;
smooth the bed of death.
oblige, accommodate, consult the wishes of; humor, cheer, encourage.
second, stand by; back, back up; pay the piper, abet; work for, make
interest for, stick up for, take up the cudgels for; take up the cause of,
espouse the cause of, adopt the cause of; advocate, beat up for recruits,
press into the service; squire, give moral support to, keep in countenance,
countenance, patronize; lend oneself to, lend one's countenance to; smile
upon, shine upon; favor, befriend, take in hand, enlist under the banners
of; side with &c. (cooperate) 709.
be of use to; subserve &c. (instrument) 631; benefit &c. 648; render a
service &c. (utility) 644; conduce &c. (tend) 176.
Adj. aiding &c. v.; auxiliary, adjuvant, helpful; coadjuvant &c. 709;
subservient, ministrant, ancillary, accessory, subsidiary.
at one's beck; friendly, amicable, favorable, propitious, well-
disposed; neighborly; obliging &c. (benevolent) 906.
Adv. with the aid, by the aid &c. of; on behalf of, in behalf of; in
aid of, in the service of, in the name of, in favor of, in furtherance of;
on account of; for the sake of, on the part of; non obstante.
Int. help! save us! to the rescue!
Phr. alterum alterius auxilio eget [Sallust]; "God befriend us as our
cause is just" [Henry IV].

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#708. Opposition. -- N.. opposition, antagonism; oppugnancy,
oppugnation; impugnation|!; contrariety; contravention; counteraction &c.
179; counterplot.
cross fire, undercurrent, head wind.
clashing, collision, conflict.
competition, two of a trade, rivalry, emulation, race.
absence of aid &c. 708; resistance &c. 719; restraint &c. 751;
hindrance &c. 706.
V. oppose, counteract, run counter to; withstand &c. (resist) 719;
control &c. (restrain) 751; hinder &c. 706; antagonize, oppugn, fly in the
face of, go dead against, kick against, fall afoul of, run afoul of; set
against, pit against; face, confront, cope with; make a stand, make a dead
set against; set oneself against, set one's face against; protest against,
vote against, raise one;s voice against; disfavor, turn one's back upon;
set at naught, slap in the face, slam the door in one's face.
be at cross purposes; play at cross purposes; counterwork,
countermine; thwart, overthwart.
stem, breast, encounter; stem the tide, breast the tide, stem the
current, stem the flood; buffet the waves; beat up against, make head
against; grapple with; kick against the pricks &c. (resist) 719; contend
&c. 720; do battle &c. (warfare) 722 -with, do battle against.
contradict, contravene; belie; go against, run against, beat against,
militate against; come in conflict with.
emulate &c. (compete) 720; rival, spoil one's trade.
Adj. opposing, opposed &c.v.; adverse, antagonistic; contrary &c. 14;
at variance &c. 24; at issue, at war with.
unfavorable, unfriendly; hostile, inimical, cross, unpropitious.
in hostile array, front to front, with crossed bayonets, at daggers
drawn; up in arms; resistant &c. 719.
copetitive, emulous.
Adv. against, versus, counter to, in conflict with, at cross purposes.
against the grain, against the current, against the stream, against
the wind, against the tide; with a headwind; with the wind ahead, with the
wind in one's teeth.
in spite, in despite, in defiance; in the way, in the teeth of, in the
face of; across; athwart, overthwart; where the shoe pinches; in spite of
one's teeth.
though &c. 30; even; quand meme; per contra.
Phr. nitor in adversum.

#709. Cooperation. -- N. cooperation; coadjuvancy, coadjutancy;
coagency, coefficiency; concert, concurrence, complicity, participation;
union &c. 43; combination &c. 48; collusion.
association, alliance, colleagueship,
joint stock, copartnership; cartel; confederation &c. (party) 712;
coalition, fusion; a long pull a strong pull and a pull all together;
logrolling, freemasonry.
unanimity &c. (assent) 488; esprit de corps, party spirit; clanship,
partisanship; concord &c 714; synergy.
V. cooperate, concur; conduce &c. 178; combine, unite one;s efforts;
keep together, draw together, pull together, club together, hand together,
hold together, league together, band together, be banded together; pool;
stand shoulder to shoulder, put shoulder to shoulder; act in concert, join
forces, fraternize, cling to one another, conspire, concert, lay one;s
heads together; confederate, be in league with; collude, understand one
another, play into the hands of, hunt in couples.
side with, take side with, go along with, go hand in hand with, join
hands with, make common cause with, strike in with, unite with, join with,
mix oneself up with, take part with, cast in one's lot with; join
partnership, enter into partnership with; rally round, follow the lead of;
come to, pass over to, come into the views of; be in the same boat, row in
the same boat; sail in the same boat; sail on the same tack.
be a party to, lend oneself to; chip in; participate; have a hand in,
have a finger in the pie; take part in, bear part in; second &c. (aid) 707;
take the part of, play the game of; espouse a cause, espouse a quarrel.
Adj. cooperating &c. v.; in cooperation &c.n., in league &c. (party)
712; coadjuvant, coadjutant; dyed in the wool; synergetic, synergistic.
favorable &c. 707 to; unopposed &c. 708.
Adv. as one &c. (unanimously) 488; shoulder to shoulder.
Phr. due teste valgono piu che una sola.

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#710. Opponent. -- N. opponent, antagonist, adversary; adverse party,
opposition; enemy &c. 891; assailant.
oppositionist, obstructive; brawler, wrangler, brangler, disputant;
filibuster [U.S.], obstructionist.
malcontent; Jacobin, Fenian; demagogue, reactionist.
rival, competitor.

#711. Auxiliary. -- N. auxiliary; recruit; assistant; adjuvant,
adjutant; ayudante, coaid; adjunct; help, helper, help mate, helping hand;
midwife; colleague, partner, mate, confrere, cooperator; coadjutor,
coadjutrix; collaborator.
ally; friend &c. 890, confidant, fidus Achates, pal, alter ego.
confederate; accomplice; complice; accessory, accessory after the
fact; particeps criminis; socius criminis.
aide-de-camp, secretary, clerk, associate, marshal; right-hand;
candle-holder, bottle-holder; handmaid; servant &c. 746; puppet, cat's-paw,
jackal|!.
tool, ame damnee; satellite, adherent.
votary; sectarian, secretary; seconder, backer, upholder, abettor,
advocate, partisan, champion, patron, friend at court, mediator; angel
[theater, entertainment].
friend in need, Jack at a pinch, deus ex machina, guardian angel,
tutelary genius.

#712. Party. -- N. party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set,
crew, band. horde, posse, phalanx; family, clan, &c. 166; team; tong.
community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity; confraternity;
familistere, familistery; brotherhood, sisterhood.
knot, gang, clique, ring, circle; coterie, club, casino|!; machine;
Tammany, Tammany Hall [U.S.].
corporation, corporate body, guild; establishment, company;
copartnership, partnership; firm, house; joint concern, joint-stock
company; cahoot, combine [U.S.], trust.
society, association; institute, institution; union; trades union;
league, syndicate, alliance, Verein, Bund, Zollverein, combination;
Turnverein; league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and
defensive; coalition; federation; confederation, confederacy; junto, cabal,
camarilla, camorra, brigue|; freemasonry; party spirit &c. (cooperation)
709.
Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals,
Freemason, Knight Templar; Kuklux, Kuklux Klan; Liberals, Luddites,
Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs &c.
staff; dramatis personae.
V. unite, join; club together &c. (cooperate) 709; cement a party,
form a party &c. n.; associate &c. (assemble) 72; enleague, federalize, go
cahoots .
Adj. in league, in partnership, in alliance &c. n.
bonded together, banded together, linked &c. (joined) 43- together;
embattled; confederated, federative, joint.
Adv. hand in hand, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, en masse,in the
same boat.

#713. Discord. -- N. disagreement &c. 24; discord, disaccord,
dissidence, dissonance; jar, clash, shock; jarring, jostling &c. v.; screw
loose.
variance, difference, dissension, misunderstanding, cross purposes,
odds, brouillerie; division, split, rupture, disruption, division in the
camp, house divided against itself, disunion, breach; schism &c. (dissent)
489; feud, faction.
quarrel, dispute, tiff, tracasserie, squabble, altercation, barney *,
demel, snarl, spat, towrow, words, high words; wrangling &c. v.; jangle,
brabble, cross questions and crooked answers, snip-snap; family jars.
polemics; litigation; strife &c. (contention) 720; warfare &c. 722;
outbreak, open rupture, declaration of war.
broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation|; embroilment,
embranglement, imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of work,
scrimmage, rumpus; breeze, squall; riot, disturbance &c (disorder) 59;
commotion &c. (agitation) 315; bear garden, Donnybrook Fair.
subject of dispute, ground of quarrel, battle ground, disputed point;
bone of contention, bone to pick; apple of discord, casus belli; question
at issue &c. (subject of inquiry) 461; vexed question, vexata quaestio,
brand of discord.
troublous times; cat-and-dog life; contentiousness &c. adj.; enmity
&c. 889; hate &c. 898; Kilkenny cats; disputant &c. 710; strange
bedfellows.
V. be discordant &c. adj.; disagree, come amiss &c. 24; clash, jar,
jostle, pull different ways, conflict, have no measures with, misunderstand
one another; live liek cat and dog; differ; dissent &c. 489; have a bone to
pick, have a crow to pluck with.
fall out, quarrel, dispute; litigate; controvert &c. (deny) 536;
squabble, wrangle, jangle, brangle, bicker, nag; spar &c. (contend) 720;
have words &c. n. with; fall foul of.
split; break with, break squares with, part company with; declare war,
try conclusions; join issue, put in issue; pick a quarrel, fasten a quarrel
on; sow dissension, stir up dissension &c. n.; embroil, entangle, disunite,
widen the breach; set at odds, set together by the ears; set against, pit
against.
get into hot water, fish in troubled waters, brawl; kick up a row,
kick up a dust; turn the house out of window.
Adj. discordant; disagreeing &c. v.; out of tune, ajar, on bad terms,
dissentient &c. 489; unreconciled, unpacified.
quarrelsome, unpacific; gladiatorial, controversial, polemic,
disputatious; factious; litigious, litigant; pettifogging.
at odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at
cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words; up in arms,
together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled.
torn, disunited.
Phr. quot homines tot sententiae [Terence]; no love lost between them,
non nostrum tantas componere lites [Vergil]; Mars gravior sub pace latet
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#714. Concord. -- N. concord, accord, harmony, symphony; homologue;
agreement &c. 23; sympathy &c. (love) 897; response; union, unison, unity;
bonds of harmony; peace &c. 721; unanimity &c. (assent) 488; league &c.
712; happy family.
rapprochement; reunion; amity &c. (friendship) 888; alliance, entente
cordiale, good understanding, conciliation, peacemaker; intercessor,
mediator.
V. agree &c. 23; accord, harmonize with; fraternize; be -concordant
&c. adj.; go hand in hand; run parallel &c. (concur) 178; understand one
another, pull together &c. (cooperate) 709; put up one's horses together,
sing in chorus.
side with, sympathize with, go with, chime in with, fall in with; come
round; be pacified &c. 723; assent &c. 488; enter into the ideas of, enter
into the feelings of; reciprocate.
hurler avec les loups; go with the stream, swim with the stream.
keep in good humor, render accordant, put in tune; come to an
understanding, meet halfway; keep the peace, remain at peace.
Adj. concordant, congenial; agreeing &c.v.; in accord &c. n.;
harmonious, united, cemented; banded together &c. 712; allied; friendly &c.
888; fraternal; conciliatory; at one with; of one mind &c. (assent) 488.
at peace, in still water; tranquil &c. (pacific) 721.
Adv. with one voice &c. (assent) 488; in concert with, hand in hand;
on one's side.
Phr. commune periculum concordiam parit.


#715. Defiance. -- N. defiance; daring &. v. ; dare; challenge,
cartel|!; threat &c. 909; war cry, war whoop.
V. defy, dare, beard; brave &c. (courage) 861; bid defiance to; set at
defiance, set at naught; hurl defiance at; dance the war dance; snap the
fingers at, laugh to scorn; disobey &c. 742.
show fight, show one's teeth, show a bold front; bluster, look big,
stand akimbo; double the fist, shake the fist; threaten &c. 909.
challenge, call out; throw down the gauntlet, fling down the gauntlet,
fling down the gage, fling down the glove, throw down the glove.
Adj. defiant; defying &c. v.;"with arms akimbo".
Adv. in defiance of, in the teeth of; under one's very nose.
Int. do your worst! come if you dare! come on! marry come up! hoity
toity|!
Phr. noli me tangere; nemo me impune lacessit.

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#716. Attack. -- N. attack; assault, assault and battery; onset,
onslaught, charge.
aggression, offense; incursion, inroad, invasion; irruption; outbreak;
estrapade, ruade; coupe de main, sally, sortie, camisade, raid, foray; run
at, run against; dead set at.
storm, storming; boarding, escalade; siege, investment, obsession|!,
bombardment, cannonade.
fire, volley; platoon fire, file fire; fusillade; sharpshooting,
broadside; raking fire, cross fire; volley of grapeshot, feu d'enfer.
cut, thrust, lunge, pass, passado, carte and tierce, home thrust;
coupe de bec; kick, punch &c. (impulse) 276.
battue, razzia, Jacquerie, dragonnade; devastation &c. 162;
eboulement.
assailant, aggressor, invader.
base of operations, point of attack; echelon.
V. attack, assault, assail; invade; set upon, fall upon; charge,
impugn, break a lance with, enter the lists.
assume the offensive, take the offensive; be the aggressor, become the
aggressor; strike the first blow, throw the first stone at; lift a hand
against, draw the sword against; take up the cudgels; advance against,
march against; march upon, harry; come on, show fight.
strike at, poke at, thrust at; aim a blow at, deal a blow at; give one
a blow, fetch one a blow, fetch one a kick, give one a kick; have a cut at,
have a shot at, take a cut at, take a shot at, have a fling at, have a shy
at; be down upon, pounce upon; fall foul of, pitch into, launch out
agianst; bait, slap on the face; make a thrust at, make a pass at, make a
set at, make a dead set at; bear down upon.
close with, come to close quarters;
bring to bay.
ride full tilt against; attack tooth and nail.
let fly at, dash at, run a tilt at, rush at, tilt at, run at, fly at,
hawk at, have at, let out at; make a dash, make a rush at; strike home;
drive one hard; press one hard; be hard upon, run down, strike at the root
of.
lay about one, run amuck.
draw a bead on [U.S.].
fire upon, fire at, fire a shot at; shoot at, pop at, level at, let
off a gun at; open fire, pepper, bombard, shell, ppour a broadside into;
fire a volley, fire red-hot shot; spring a mine.
throw a stone, throw stones at; stone, lapidate, pelt; hurl at, hurl
against, hurl at the head of; rock [U.S.]
beset, besiege, beleaguer; lay siege to, invest, open the trenches,
plant a battery, sap, mine; storm, board, scale the walls.
cut and thrust, bayonet, butt; kick, strike &c. (impulse) 276; whipe
&c. (punish) 972.
Adj. attacking &c.v.; aggressive, offensive, obsidional.
up in arms.
Adv. on the offensive.
Int. "up and at them!"
Phr. "the din of arms, the yell of savage rage, the shriek of agony,
the groan of death" [Southey]; "their fatal hands no second stroke intend'
[Paradise Lost]; "thirst for glory quells the love of life" [Addison].

#717. Defense -- N. defense, protection, guard, ward; shielding &c.v.;
propugnation|, preservation &c. 670; guardianship.
self-defense, self-preservation; resistance &c. 719.
safeguard &c. (safety) 664; balistraria; screen &c. (shelter) 666;
(concealment) 530; fortification; munition, muniment; bulwark, fosse, moat,
ditch, intrenchment; kila; dike, dyke; parapet, sunk fence, embankment,
mound, mole, bank; earth work, field-work; fence, wall dead wall,
contravallation; paling &c. (inclosure) 232; palisade, haha, stockade,
stoccado, laager, sangar; barrier, barricade; boom; portcullis, chevaux de
frise; abatis, abattis, abbatis; vallum, circumvallation, battlement,
rampart, scarp; escarp, counter-scarp; glacis, casemate; vallation, vanfos.
buttress, abutment; shore &c. (support) 215.
breastwork, banquette, curtain, mantlet, bastion, redan, ravelin;
vauntmure; advance work, horn work, outwork; barbacan, barbican; redoubt;
fort-elage, fort-alice; lines.
loophole, machicolation; sally port.
hold, stronghold, fastness; asylum &c. (refuge) 666; keep, donjon,
fortress, citadel, capitol, castle; tower of strength, tower of strength;
fort, barracoon, pah, sconce, martello tower, peelhouse, blockhouse, rath;
wooden walls.
buffer, corner stone, fender, apron, mask, gauntlet, thimble,
carapace, armor, shield, buckler, aegis, breastplate, backplate,
cowcatcher, face guard, scutum, cuirass, habergeon, mail, coat of mail,
brigandine, hauberk, lorication, helmet, helm, bassinet, salade, heaume,
morion, murrion, armet, cabaset, vizor, casquetel, siege cap, headpiece,
casque, pickethaube, vambrace, shako &c. (dress) 225.
bearskin; panoply; truncheon &c. (weapon) 727.
garrison, picket, piquet; defender, protector; guardian &c. (safety)
664; bodyguard, champion; knight-errant, Paladin; propugner.
V. defend, forfend, fend; shield, screen, shroud; engarrison; fend
round &c. (circumscribe) 229; fence, intrench; guard &c. (keep safe) 664;
guard against; take care of &c. (vigilance) 459; bear harmless; fend off,
keep off, ward off, beat off; hinder &c. 706.
parry, repel, propugn, put to flight; give a warm reception to
[ironical]; hold at bay, keep at bay, keep arm's length.
stand on the defensive, act on the defensive; show fight; maintain
one;s ground, stand one's ground; stand by; hold one's own; bear the brunt,
stand the brunt; fall back upon, hold, stand in the gap.
Adj. defending &c.v.; defensive; mural|!; armed, armed at all points,
armed cap-a-pie, armed to the teeth; panoplied; ironplated, ironclad;
loopholed, castellated, machicolated, casemated; defended &c.v.; proof
against.
ballproof|!, bulletproof.
Adv. defensively; on the defense, on the defensive; in defense; at
bay, pro aris et focis.
Int. no surrender!
Phr. defense not defiance; Dieu defend le droit; fidei defensor.

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