What is to furnish with defenses; to fortify. [Obs.] [Written also defence.] Better manned and more strongly defensed. Hales called?
defense — To furnish with defenses; to fortify. [Obs.] [Written also defence.] Better manned and more strongly defensed. Hales. (Webster's 1913.)
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