"beshield" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English bischilden, from Old English besċyldian, besċieldian (“to shield, defend”); equivalent to be- + shield.",
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      "form": "beshields",
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      "form": "beshielding",
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      "form": "beshielded",
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          "ref": "1876, Torquato Tasso, The Jerusalem delivered of Yorquato Tasso",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "2004, Robert Thornton, The Prose Life of Alexander",
          "text": "[…]that in that same night Olympia might behold the god Hamon lying beside her, and saying to her thereafter, 'Woman, thou hast conceived him who shall beshield thee.",
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        "To shield around or about; protect; defend."
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        "(transitive, reflexive, archaic) To shield around or about; protect; defend."
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          "ref": "1872, The Net",
          "text": "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.",
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        "To provide or outfit with a shield."
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        "(transitive) To provide or outfit with a shield."
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      "rhymes": "-iːld"
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        {
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          "text": "[…]that in that same night Olympia might behold the god Hamon lying beside her, and saying to her thereafter, 'Woman, thou hast conceived him who shall beshield thee.",
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        "To shield around or about; protect; defend."
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        "(transitive) To provide or outfit with a shield."
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