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any defensive pleading that affirms facts rather than merely denying the facts alleged by the plaintiff

Any edentate animal if the family Dasypidae, peculiar to America. The body and head are incased in an armor composed of small bony pla…

Formerly, one who had care of the arms and armor of a knight, and who dressed him in armor.

Armor; defensive and offensive arms.

Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded ( which is the proper form.)

A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.]

Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse.

A Berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armor, or shirt of mail. Hence, adverbially: Without shirt of mail or armor.

A piece of defensive armor for the arm.

A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor.

The matters of fact or conditions involved in a suit, as distinguished from the questions of law; a suit or action at law; a cause.

A piece of defensive or ornamental armor (with or without a vizor) for the head and neck; a helmet.

Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for the horse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations.

The prosecution or defense of a suit, whether by furnishing money or personal services, by one who has no legitimate concern therein,…

Full to the brim; quite full; chock-full.

Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.

Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including bre…

A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit.