scutums

scutums

1. plural of scutum
   • 1893, Lew Wallace, “Count Corti to Mahommed”, in The Prince of India; or, Why Constantinople Fell, volume II, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers Publishers, book V (Mirza), page 316:

     It is well stored with implements of offence and defence—mangonels, balistas, arbalists, rams—cranes for repairing breaches—lances, javelins, swords, axes, shields, scutums, pavises, armor—timber for ships—cressets for night work—ironmonger machines—arquebuses, but of antique patterns—quarrels and arrows in countless sheaves—bows of every style.

   • 1908, George H. F. Nuttall, Cecil Warburton, W. F. Cooper, L. E. Robinson, Ticks: A Monograph of the Ixodoidea, Cambridge: at the University Press, page 497:

     The scutums of 5 nymphs gave the following measurements in mm.: […]

   • 1921, Parasitology, Cambridge: at the University Press, page 5:

     […] no similarly situated dark spot is observable in the scutums of the closely allied species A. hebraeum, A. cohaerens, etc.

   • 1950, The American Midland Naturalist, page 194:

     Plate 1.—Photomicrographs of scutums of T. microti and T. bisignata.

   • 1959, Pakistan Journal of Health, page 275:

     Text-figs 25-43.—Scutums of the larvae of trombidiid mites, 25.

   • 1960, John Hendrick Whitlock, Diagnosis of Veterinary Parasitisms, Lea & Febiger, page 62:

     2. The ornate scutums and the festoons in the Ixodidæ. 3. The extent of the scutums in male and female Ixodidæ.

   • 2007, Christine Dugan, “A Powerful Army”, in Julius Caesar: Roman Leader, Teacher Created Materials, published 2008, →ISBN, page 15:

     Sometimes, they held all their scutums together to form a huge shield overhead.

   • 2012, Justin Johnson, Forgotten Heroes: Tides of War, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →LCCN, chapter 1, page 5:

     Holding fast behind their false hopes of being protected by their shields, like a porcupine’s soft underbelly, hidden behind the shielded wall was the squishy vulnerable targets tucked behind their bowed scutums.