Ward () The act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship; specifically, a guarding during the day. See the Note under Watch, n., 1.

Ward () One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection.

Ward () The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody.

Ward () A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard.

Ward () One who, or that which, is guarded.

Ward () A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery.

Ward () A division of a county.

Ward () A division, district, or quarter of a town or city.

Ward () A division of a forest.

Ward () A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward.

Ward () A projecting ridge of metal in the interior of a lock, to prevent the use of any key which has not a corresponding notch for passing it.

Ward () A notch or slit in a key corresponding to a ridge in the lock which it fits; a ward notch.

Warded () of Ward

Warding () of Ward

Ward () To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time.

Ward () To defend; to protect.

Ward () To defend by walls, fortifications, etc.

Ward () To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.

Ward () To be vigilant; to keep guard.

Ward () To act on the defensive with a weapon.

Ward-corn () The duty of keeping watch and ward (see the Note under Watch, n., 1) with a horn to be blown upon any occasion of surprise.

Wardcorps () Guardian; one set to watch over another.

Warden () A keeper; a guardian; a watchman.

Warden () An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison.

Warden () A head official; as, the warden of a college; specifically (Eccl.), a churchwarden.

Warden () A large, hard pear, chiefly used for baking and roasting.

Wardenry () Alt. of Wardenship

Wardenship () The office or jurisdiction of a warden.

Warder () One who wards or keeps; a keeper; a guard.

Warder () A truncheon or staff carried by a king or a commander in chief, and used in signaling his will.

Wardian () Designating, or pertaining to, a kind of glass inclosure for keeping ferns, mosses, etc., or for transporting growing plants from a distance; as, a Wardian case of plants; -- so named from the inventor, Nathaniel B. Ward, an Englishman.

Wardmote () Anciently, a meeting of the inhabitants of a ward; also, a court formerly held in each ward of London for trying defaults in matters relating to the watch, police, and the like.

Wardrobe () A room or apartment where clothes are kept, or wearing apparel is stored; a portable closet for hanging up clothes.

Wardrobe () Wearing apparel, in general; articles of dress or personal decoration.

Wardrobe () A privy.

Wardroom () A room occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers of a war vessel. See Gunroom.

Wardroom () A room used by the citizens of a city ward, for meetings, political caucuses, elections, etc.

Wardship () The office of a ward or keeper; care and protection of a ward; guardianship; right of guardianship.

Wardship () The state of begin under a guardian; pupilage.

Wardsmen () of Wardsman

Wardsman () A man who keeps ward; a guard.

Ware () Wore.

Ware () To wear, or veer. See Wear.

Ware () Seaweed.

Ware () Articles of merchandise; the sum of articles of a particular kind or class; style or class of manufactures; especially, in the plural, goods; commodities; merchandise.

Ware () A ware; taking notice; hence, wary; cautious; on one's guard. See Beware.

Ware () The state of being ware or aware; heed.

Ware () To make ware; to warn; to take heed of; to beware of; to guard against.

Wareful () Wary; watchful; cautious.

Warefulness () Wariness; cautiousness.

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