One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator.
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One who admonishes.
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A guard to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard.
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To furnish with a champion; to attend or defend as champion; to support or maintain; to protect.
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A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood.
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One who has care or custody, as of some public building; a keeper or superintendent.
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A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant;…
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One who fights; a combatant; a warrior.
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To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend; to shelter; to shield from surprise or attack; t…
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An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.
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One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything.
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One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
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A knight-errant; a distinguished champion; as, the paladins of Charlemagne.
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One who, or that which, reminds; that which serves to awaken remembrance.
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A man employed in a large family, or on a large estate, to manage the domestic concerns, supervise other servants, collect the rents or income, keep…
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An officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties agains…
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A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.
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A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to…
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Waging war; carrying on war.
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Contending; disposed to contend.
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One who fights; a combatant; a warrior.
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One who, or that which, preserves, saves, or defends, from destruction, injury, or decay; esp., one who saves the life or character of another.
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To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.
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To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.
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One who guards, preserves, or secures; one to whom any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from injury; a warden.
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One who, or that which, defends or shields from injury, evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron.
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One who withstands, or opposes; an opponent; a resisting power.
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