- scute (def. 1).
- a large, oblong shield used by the heavy legionaries of ancient Rome.
- the Shield, a southern constellation north of Sagittarius and east of Aquila, containing a small, very bright star cloud.
- the middle of three plates into which the notum of an insect's thorax is divided
- another word for scute
- a large Roman shield
- a small faint constellation in the S hemisphere lying between Sagittarius and Aquila and crossed by the Milky Way
