Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Spotted; variegated.
- noun An obsolete form of
shield . - noun An obsolete or dialectal form of
shold for shoal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Prov. Eng. Variegated; spotted; speckled; piebald.
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- adjective UK, dialect
variegated ;spotted ;speckled ;piebald
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is no different than the showlace experiment, used to sheld students from the true emotional and social and political issues of that time.
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I would be willing to wager if the election wa sheld today the Massachussets liberal would again lose.
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So we volunteered to host a person in our home who's participating in the Gay Games, that 'sheld here in early November.
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His sheld to-dasshed was with swerdes and maces, 640
Troilus and Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer
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Launcelot put his sheld afore hym and put the stroke aweye of the one gyaunt, and with his swerd he clafe his hede a sondre.
A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman
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But syre Arthur pressed unto Accolon with his sheld and gaf hym with the pomel in his hand suche a buffet that he wente thre strydes abak.
A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman
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Food Inc, Food Matters, and other documentires help sheld some light on obesity/health issues for the laymen but those who follow academic journals not only in obesity but also in biochemsitry know that Americanand most western nations food supply it seriously tainted.
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I know he love us to just as much as he loves Israel but he is their sowrd and sheld their wepon.
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Then finding the Captaine, as is said, that vsed the Salvage that was his guide as his sheld (three of them being slaine and diuers other so gauld) all the rest would not come neere him.
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Her and Jojo have the same problem, they look great for a distance but then get up close and take cover and sheld your eyes.
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