BANE
[noun]
1. a person or thing that ruins or spoils.
2. a deadly poison (often used in combination, as in the names of poisonous plants).
3. death; destruction; ruin.
4. Obsolete: that which causes death or destroys life.
Etymology: Middle English; Old English bana - slayer; cognate with Old Norse bani - death, murderer, Old Frisian bona - murder, Old Saxon bano - murderer, Old High German bano - slayer, bana - death; akin to Old English benn, Gothic banja - wound.
CUIRASS
[noun]
1. also called corselet: defensive armour for the torso comprising a breastplate and backplate, originally made of leather; a piece of armour, formed of a single or multiple pieces of metal or other rigid material, which covers the front of the torso.
2. either of the plates forming such armour.
3. any similar covering, as the protective armour of a ship.
4. Zoology: a hard shell or other covering forming an indurated defensive shield.
Etymology: French - cuirasse. Latin - coriaceus.