beshields

Verb

beshield (third-person singular simple present beshields, present participle beshielding, simple past and past participle beshielded)

1. (archaic, reflexive, transitive) To shield around or about; protect; defend.
   • 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.1876, Torquato Tasso, The Jerusalem delivered of Yorquato Tasso
2. (transitive) To provide or outfit with a shield.
   • 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.1872, The Net