- AS. scidanscyldan. SeeShieldn.
- To cover with, or as with, a shield; to cover from danger; to defend; to protect from assault or injury.Shouts of applause ran ringing through the field, To see the son the vanquished father shield.A woman's shape doth shield thee.
- To ward off; to keep off or out.They brought with them their usual weeds, fit to shield the cold to which they had been inured.
- To avert, as a misfortune; hence, as a supplicatory exclamation, forbid!ObsGod shield that it should so befall.God shield I should disturb devotion!
