Ward (n.) One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection.
Ward (n.) The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody.
Ward (n.) A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard.
Ward (n.) One who, or that which, is guarded.
Ward (n.) A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery.
Ward (n.) A division of a county.
Ward (n.) A division, district, or quarter of a town or city.
Ward (n.) A division of a forest.
Ward (n.) A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward.
Ward (n.) 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 (n.) A notch or slit in a key corresponding to a ridge in the lock which it fits; a ward notch.
Warded (imp. & p. p.) of Ward
Warding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ward
Ward (n.) To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time.
Ward (n.) To defend; to protect.
Ward (n.) To defend by walls, fortifications, etc.
Ward (n.) To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.
Ward (v. i.) To be vigilant; to keep guard.
Ward (v. i.) To act on the defensive with a weapon.
Ward-corn (n.) 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 (n.) Guardian; one set to watch over another.
Warden (n.) A keeper; a guardian; a watchman.
Warden (n.) An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison.
Warden (n.) A head official; as, the warden of a college; specifically (Eccl.), a churchwarden.
Warden (n.) A large, hard pear, chiefly used for baking and roasting.
Wardenry (n.) Alt. of Wardenship
Wardenship (n.) The office or jurisdiction of a warden.
Warder (n.) One who wards or keeps; a keeper; a guard.
Warder (n.) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or a commander in chief, and used in signaling his will.
Wardian (a.) 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 (n.) 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 (v. t.) A room or apartment where clothes are kept, or wearing apparel is stored; a portable closet for hanging up clothes.
Wardrobe (v. t.) Wearing apparel, in general; articles of dress or personal decoration.
Wardrobe (v. t.) A privy.
Wardroom (n.) A room occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers of a war vessel. See Gunroom.
Wardroom (n.) A room used by the citizens of a city ward, for meetings, political caucuses, elections, etc.
-wards () See -ward.
Wardship (n.) The office of a ward or keeper; care and protection of a ward; guardianship; right of guardianship.
Wardship (n.) The state of begin under a guardian; pupilage.
Wardsmen (pl. ) of Wardsman
Wardsman (n.) A man who keeps ward; a guard.
Ware (imp.) Wore.
Ware (v. t.) To wear, or veer. See Wear.
Ware (n.) Seaweed.
Ware (a.) 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.) A ware; taking notice; hence, wary; cautious; on one's guard. See Beware.
Ware (n.) The state of being ware or aware; heed.
Ware (v. t.) To make ware; to warn; to take heed of; to beware of; to guard against.
Wareful (a.) Wary; watchful; cautious.
Warefulness (n.) Wariness; cautiousness.
Warega fly () A Brazilian fly whose larvae live in the skin of man and animals, producing painful sores.
Warehouses (pl. ) of Warehouse
Warehouse (n.) A storehouse for wares, or goods.
Warehoused (imp. & p. p.) of Warehouse
Warehousing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Warehouse
Warehouse (v. t.) To deposit or secure in a warehouse.
Warehouse (v. t.) To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid.
Warehousemen (pl. ) of Warehouseman
Warehouseman (n.) One who keeps a warehouse; the owner or keeper of a dock warehouse or wharf store.
Warehouseman (n.) One who keeps a wholesale shop or store for Manchester or woolen goods.
Warehousing (n.) The act of placing goods in a warehouse, or in a customhouse store.
Wareless (n.) Unwary; incautious; unheeding; careless; unaware.
Warely (adv.) Cautiously; warily.
Warence (n.) Madder.
Wareroom (n.) A room in which goods are stored or exhibited for sale.
Wares (n. pl.) See 4th Ware.
Warfare (n.) Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war.
Warfare (n.) Contest; struggle.
Warfare (v. i.) To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.
Warfarer (n.) One engaged in warfare; a military man; a soldier; a warrior.
Warhable (a.) Fit for war.
Wariangle (n.) The red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); -- called also wurger, worrier, and throttler.
Warily (adv.) In a wary manner.
Wariment (n.) Wariness.
Warine (n.) A South American monkey, one of the sapajous.
Wariness (n.) The quality or state of being wary; care to foresee and guard against evil; cautiousness.
Warish (v. t.) To protect from the effects of; hence, to cure; to heal.
Warish (v. i.) To be cured; to recover.
Warison (v. t.) Preparation; protection; provision; supply.
Warison (v. t.) Reward; requital; guerdon.
Wark (n.) Work; a building.
Warkloom (n.) A tool; an implement.
Warlike (a.) Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition.
Warlike (a.) Belonging or relating to war; military; martial.
Warlikeness (n.) Quality of being warlike.
Warling (n.) One often quarreled with; -- / word coined, perhaps, to rhyme with darling.
Warlock (n.) A male witch; a wizard; a sprite; an imp.
Warlock (a.) Of or pertaining to a warlock or warlock; impish.
Warlockry (n.) Impishness; magic.
Warly (a.) Warlike.
Warm (superl.) Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk.
Warm (superl.) Having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing.
Warm (superl.) Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather; as, the warm climate of Egypt.
Warm (superl.) Fig.: Not cool, indifferent, lukewarm, or the like, in spirit or temper; zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable.
Warm (superl.) Violent; vehement; furious; excited; passionate; as, a warm contest; a warm debate.
Warm (superl.) Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; forehanded; rich.
Warm (superl.) In children's games, being near the object sought for; hence, being close to the discovery of some person, thing, or fact concealed.
Warm (superl.) Having yellow or red for a basis, or in their composition; -- said of colors, and opposed to cold which is of blue and its compounds.
Warmed (imp. & p. p.) of Warm
Warming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Warm