See Also: human shield(dictionary)
Shield(medicine)
Tax shield(money)
Tax shield(finance)
shield(1)(dictionary)
shield(2)(dictionary)
blue shield(medicine)
continental shield(encyclopedia)
Depreciation tax shield(finance)
Shield (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)

myricin (iou) and human shield (oh)


myricin (iou)



myricin noun. E19.
[from mod. Latin Myrica (cerifera) wax myrtle (a source of myricin): see MYRICA, -IN1.]
Chemistry. A wax ester, myricyl palmitate, found in beeswax and some plant waxes.

human shield (oh)



n [C]
someone who is taken and kept as a prisoner by a criminal in order to protect the criminal from being killed, injured, or caught