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Shieldless

Shieldless \Shield"less\, a. Destitute of a shield, or of protection. -- Shield"less*ly, adv. -- Shield"less*ness, n.

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shieldless

a. Without a shield.

Usage examples of "shieldless".

Smoke, that could not check its furious pace, leapt over them, as a horse leaps a-hunting: How he would not ride down Lozelle, but dismounted to finish the fray in knightly fashion, and, being shieldless, received the full weight of the great sword upon his mail, so that he staggered back and would have fallen had he not struck against the horse.

They were shieldless but armed with two-foot, hand-span-width cut-and-thrust swords and half-armored in plate.

They were shieldless and half-blind, and their once-powerful arsenal was limited to a couple of battered phaser banks.

And was his mind, shieldless as hers against this kind of attack, under its influence as well?

Even if the liquor was not laced with killcare or some other hypnotic, he had good reason to stay alert, shieldless in this company.

Nom Anor spoke, a salvo of plasma balls streaked into the hologram and erupted against the shieldless starliner, opening flash-melted holes in the durasteel hull.

He was shieldless, his wounded hand dangling from the bleeding hinge of the wrist.

The front rank of the enemy would then be stuck, essentially shieldless and without a defense, open to a sword charge.

Gavin turned toward those pilots, all of whom had donned red scarves to give them a rakish air-and it worked, even for the Gamorrean aft gunner in an old shieldless Y- wing.

His second thrust caught the creature on its exposed, shieldless side, and it crumpled as the blade slid into its flesh.

But their weapons were a two-edged sword, for any direct hit on the shieldless fighters destroyed them with impressive pyrotechnically-enhanced explosions.

Nom Anor spoke, a salvo of plasma balls streaked into the hologram and erupted against the shieldless starliner, opening flash-melted holes in the durasteel hull.