Word Meanings - INDEFENSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Defenseless. The sword awes the indefensive villager. Sir T. Herbert.

Related words: (words related to INDEFENSIVE)

• VILLAGERY
  Villages; a district of villages. "The maidens of the villagery." Shak.
• SWORDLESS
  Destitute of a sword.
• SWORDSMANSHIP
  The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
• SWORD-SHAPED
  Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.
• INDEFENSIVE
  Defenseless. The sword awes the indefensive villager. Sir T. Herbert.
• SWORDING
  Slashing with a sword. Tennyson.
• SWORDED
  Girded with a sword. Milton.
• SWORDSMAN
  1. A soldier; a fighting man. 2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
• SWORDFISH
  A southern constellation. See Dorado, 1. Swordfish sucker , a remora which attaches itself to the swordfish. (more info) A very large oceanic fish , the only representative of the family Xiphiidæ. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones
• VILLAGER
  An inhabitant of a village. Brutus had rather be a villager Than to repute himself a son of Rome Under these hard condition. Shak.
• SWORD
  One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended. Sword arm, the right arm. -- Sword bayonet, a bayonet shaped somewhat like a sword, and which can be used as a sword. -- Sword bearer, one who carries his master's sword; an officer
• SWORDPLAY
  Fencing; a sword fight.
• SWORDMAN
  A swordsman. "Sinewy swordmen." Shak.
• SWORDER
  One who uses, or fights with, a sword; a swordsman; a soldier; a cutthroat. Shak.
• SWORDPLAYER
  A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.
• DEFENSELESS
  Destitute of defense; unprepared to resist attack; unable to oppose; unprotected. -- De*fense"less*ly, adv. -- De*fense"less*ness, n.
• SWORDBILL
  A humming bird having a very long, slender bill, exceeding the length of the body of the bird.
• SWORDICK
  The spotted gunnel .
• SWORDTAIL
  The limulus. Any hemipterous insect of the genus Uroxiphus, found upon forest trees.
• BROADSWORD
  A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. I heard the broadsword's deadly clang. Sir W. Scott.
• BACKSWORD
  1. A sword with one sharp edge. 2. In England, a stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used. Also called singlestick. Halliwell.
• PASSWORD
  A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign. Macaulay.
• HALF-SWORD
  Half the length of a sword; close fight. "At half-sword." Shak.
• MISWORD
  To word wrongly; as, to misword a message, or a sentence.
• SMALLSWORD
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.