Word Meanings - SELF-DEFENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

DEFENSER
Defender. Foxe.
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
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.
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