protection - a) the act or an instance of protecting; b) the state of being protected; defence.

the act or an instance of putting out of sight; a hiding; concealment.

a room or building where criminals and persons under trial are confined; a jail; a prison.

a room or group of rooms below the ground level and usu. under a building; a cellar.

a hole or a tunnel dug in the ground.

the ruler of the land; a king.

a dove, pigeon.

a small house or box with compartments for nesting pigeons, usu. on a pole; pigeonhole; dove-cot.

a horizontal molding projecting along the top of a wall, building, etc.; the cornice.

a blind person.

a female pigeon.

a road that is rough, uneven, and tiresome to walk on; a bad path.

(fig.) an illegal, immoral way, manner, etc.

the grass Sorghum nitidum (=Andropogon sorghum) of Poaceae family.

its fragrant root.

an unchaste woman.

the colour made by blending black and white; gray.

hydrated sodium carbonate, Na2CO3.10H2O; narton.

a silvery-white, brittle, nonmetallic chemical element of crystalline structure, found only in combination; antimony.

a flock of pigeons.

a collyrum made of antimony.

a sari of gray colour.