scutiferous

English

Etymology

From Latin scutum (“shield”) +‎ -ferous.

Adjective

scutiferous (not comparable)

(zoology) Having a scute.
(nonce word) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Carrying a shield or buckler.
Just beyond the castle walls stood several scutiferous persons, whom I supposed to be knights.
- 1844, Plantagenet (alias), “The Church-House and Lich-Gate at Bray, Berkshire”, in The Gentleman's Magazine‎^[1], volume XXI (New Series), Wiliam Pickering; John Bowyer Nichols and Son, page 133:
  ...the only remaining designations of its origin (although nearly effaced by whitewash) are certain scutiferous angels carved in relief, some with the ancient bearings of Norys of Ocholt—a chevron inter three raven's heads erased...
- 1858, James Payn, Furness Abbey and its Neighbourhood‎^[2], John Garnett; Whittaker and Co., pages 32, 33:
  ...their internal mouldings finish in "scutiferous angels," says our authority, which we suppose in plain English to mean, angels bearing shields...

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scutiferous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)