shieldedadj.
/ˈʃiːldɪd/ 1. in extended use.1830 Ld. Tennyson Grasshopper in Poems 109 Clap thy shielded sides and carol.1883 R. W. Dixon Mano i. v. 12 And through the seas the hidden isles they hunt In shielded vessels.
a. Bearing a shield.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > shield > [adjective]
shielded971
pavised1584
sword-and-buckler1598
aegis-bearing?1609
bucklered1832
targeted1848
971 Blickl. Hom. 221 Twegen englas..gesceldode and gesperode.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Ezek. xxxviii. 5 Men..alle sheeldid and helmyd.
1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. viii. 269 Crowded close with steeds and shielded men.
a1875 R. S. Hawker in C. E. Byles Life & Lett. R. S. Hawker (1905) 136 The charm'd and shielded Men.
b. Natural History. In names of various animals characterized by a hard shield-like carapace or scute.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [adjective] > having a hard protective covering > having scales
scaleda1400
scaly1528
plateda1560
squamy1592
squamigerous1656
squamose1661
shielded1662
squamous1668
squamated1752
scutated1802
loricate1826
scutate1826
squamate1826
scutulate1827
loricated1871
scutulated1885
1662 J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Trilinguis 42 The shielded tortoise.
1854 A. Adams et al. Man. Nat. Hist. 244 Shielded-Bugs (Scutelleridæ).
1854 A. Adams et al. Man. Nat. Hist. 265 Shielded-Centipedes (Cermatiidæ).
1854 A. Adams et al. Man. Nat. Hist. 289 Shielded-Crabs (Dorippidæ).
1855 Catal. Shield Reptiles Brit. Mus. Introd. Shielded Reptiles (Cataphracta).
2. Furnished or hung with shields.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [adjective] > ornamented in other specific ways
membereda1425
chained1552
armed1553
shielded1805
sun-rayed1856
repeating1863
ajouré1903
1805 W. Scott Hellvellyn 27 With scutcheons of silver the coffin is shielded.
1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd iii. 311 And thence forth to..the high-built shielded bale.
1892 S. A. Brooke Hist. Early Eng. Lit. iv. 113 The shielded hall of Valhalla.
3. ? Emblazoned.Apparently an isolated use.
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1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 95 And in the midst..A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings.
4. technical. Protected by a ‘shield’.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > [adjective] > types of equipment generally
Archimedean1813
shielded1855
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > [adjective] > protected or defended > protected by a shield (of apparatus, etc.)
shielded1855
1855 D. T. Ansted in Orr's Circle Sci.: Inorg. Nature 247 With regard to the relative value of the different safety lamps that have been introduced, the shielded Davy may be said still to keep its place.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Oct. 12/1 Extremely fast ships,..mounting shielded guns of very great power.
1927 Morning Post 8 Sept. 10/1 The high frequency stage should be screened, and if one of the new shielded valves is used the circuit will be a simple one, easily handled, and cheaply built.
1970 J. Shepherd et al. Higher Electr. Engin. (ed. 2) vii. 225 For steady (or static) fields, the only method of achieving shielding is to provide a low-reluctance magnetic path for the stray flux, in such a way that this flux bypasses the shielded point.
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