Word Meanings - FENCEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Affording defense; defensive. Congreve.

Related words: (words related to FENCEFUL)

• DEFENSIVELY
  On the defensive.
• DEFENSER
  Defender. Foxe.
• DEFENSIVE
  1. Serving to defend or protect; proper for defense; opposed to offensive; as, defensive armor. A moat defensive to a house. Shak. 2. Carried on by resisting attack or aggression; -- opposed to offensive; as, defensive war. 3. In a state or posture
• CONGREVE ROCKET
  See ROCKET
• AFFORDMENT
  Anything given as a help; bestowal.
• DEFENSE; DEFENCE
  The defendant's answer or plea; an opposing or denial of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's or prosecutor's case; the method of proceeding adopted by the defendant to protect himself against the plaintiff's action. 5. Act or skill in making
• AFFORDABLE
  That may be afforded.
• AFFORD
  fr. for forth, forward. The prefix ge- has no well defined sense. See 1. To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an
• DEFENSELESS
  Destitute of defense; unprepared to resist attack; unable to oppose; unprotected. -- De*fense"less*ly, adv. -- De*fense"less*ness, n.
• DEFENSE
  Better manned and more strongly defensed. Hales.
• INDEFENSIVE
  Defenseless. The sword awes the indefensive villager. Sir T. Herbert.
• SELF-DEFENSE
  The act of defending one's own person, property, or reputation. In self-defense , in protection of self, -- it being permitted in law to a party on whom a grave wrong is attempted to resist the wrong, even at the peril of the life of
• SELF-DEFENSIVE
  Defending, or tending to defend, one's own person, property, or reputation.