beshield

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To shield around or about; protect; defend. archaic,reflexive,transitive
    — Beshield thee with thy troops; find out at will Fresh instruments of war, and unknown gear; For thou shalt not scape death from this my hand, O slayer of the dames, so brave and grand.
  2. To provide or outfit with a shield. transitive
    — Our bearers now began to call themselves Natal Kafirs, fearing to say they were Zulus before the young Amaswazi warriors, beplumed, beshielded, bespeared, perched about here and there in picturesque unconsciousness of their picturesqueness.

词形变化

beshields present,singular,third-person beshielding participle,present beshielded participle,past beshielded past

词源

From Middle English bischilden, from Old English besċyldian, besċieldian (“to shield, defend”); equivalent to be- + shield.
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