Shellproof: alternatives and connections

Resisting poison; obviating the effects of venom; alexipharmic.

Resisting blows; hard.

Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of a…

A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.

An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate part…

An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or f…

To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly; as, he braced himself against the crowd.

Capable of resisting the force of a bullet.

A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.

Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a…

A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used a…

The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension.

Composed of shells; containing many shells.

Carried on by resisting attack or aggression; -- opposed to offensive; as, defensive war.

To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting…

The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents…

Power of lasting, enduring, or resisting; durability.

Cast skins, shells, or coverings of animals; any parts of animals which are shed or cast off, as the skins of snakes, the shells of lo…