-ward

17 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  -ward \-ward\ (w[~e]rd), -wards \-wards\ (w[~e]rdz). [AS.
     -weard, -weardes; akin to OS. & OFries. -ward. OHG. -wert, G.
     -w[aum]rts, Icel. -ver[eth]r, Goth. -va['i]r[thorn]s, L.
     vertere to turn, versus toward, and E. worth to become.
     [root]143. See {Worth}. v. i., and cf. {Verse}. Adverbs
     ending in -wards (AS. -weardes) and some other adverbs, such


     as besides, betimes, since (OE. sithens). etc., were
     originally genitive forms used adverbially.]
     Suffixes denoting course or direction to; motion or tendency
     toward; as in backward, or backwards; toward, or towards,
     etc.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ward \Ward\, n. [AS. weard, fem., guard, weard, masc., keeper,
     guard; akin to OS. ward a watcher, warden, G. wart, OHG.
     wart, Icel. v["o]r[eth]r a warden, a watch, Goth. -wards in
     da['u]rawards a doorkeeper, and E. wary; cf. OF. warde guard,
     from the German. See {Ware}, a., {Wary}, and cf. {Guard},
     {Wraith}.]
     1. The act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship;
        specifically, a guarding during the day. See the Note
        under {Watch}, n., 1.
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              Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward.
                                                    --Spenser.
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     2. One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender;
        protector; means of guarding; defense; protection.
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              For the best ward of mine honor.      --Shak.
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              The assieged castle's ward
              Their steadfast stands did mightily maintain.
                                                    --Spenser.
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              For want of other ward,
              He lifted up his hand, his front to guard. --Dryden.
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     3. The state of being under guard or guardianship;
        confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a
        guardian; custody.
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              And he put them in ward in the house of the captain
              of the guard.                         --Gen. xl. 3.
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              I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am
              now in ward.                          --Shak.
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              It is also inconvenient, in Ireland, that the wards
              and marriages of gentlemen's children should be in
              the disposal of any of those lords.   --Spenser.
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     4. A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing;
        guard. "Thou knowest my old ward; here I lay, and thus I
        bore my point." --Shak.
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     5. One who, or that which, is guarded. Specifically: 
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        (a) A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a
            ward in chancery. "You know our father's ward, the
            fair Monimia." --Otway.
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        (b) A division of a county. [Eng. & Scot.]
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        (c) A division, district, or quarter of a town or city.
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                  Throughout the trembling city placed a guard,
                  Dealing an equal share to every ward. --Dryden.
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        (d) A division of a forest. [Eng.]
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        (e) A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward.
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     6.
        (a) 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.
        (b) A notch or slit in a key corresponding to a ridge in
            the lock which it fits; a ward notch. --Knight.
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                  The lock is made . . . more secure by attaching
                  wards to the front, as well as to the back,
                  plate of the lock, in which case the key must be
                  furnished with corresponding notches.
                                                    --Tomlinson.
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     {Ward penny} (O. Eng. Law), money paid to the sheriff or
        castellan for watching and warding a castle.
  
     {Ward staff}, a constable's or watchman's staff. [Obs.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ward \Ward\, v. i.
     1. To be vigilant; to keep guard.
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     2. To act on the defensive with a weapon.
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              She redoubling her blows drove the stranger to no
              other shift than to ward and go back. --Sir P.
                                                    Sidney.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ward \Ward\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Warded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Warding}.] [OE. wardien, AS. weardian to keep, protect; akin
     to OS. ward?n to watch, take care, OFries. wardia, OHG.
     wart?n, G. warten to wait, wait on, attend to, Icel. var?a to
     guarantee defend, Sw. v[*a]rda to guard, to watch; cf. OF.
     warder, of German origin. See {Ward}, n., and cf. {Award},
     {Guard}, {Reward}.]
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     1. To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a
        specific sense, to guard during the day time.
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              Whose gates he found fast shut, no living wight
              To ward the same.                     --Spenser.
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     2. To defend; to protect.
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              Tell him it was a hand that warded him
              From thousand dangers.                --Shak.
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     3. To defend by walls, fortifications, etc. [Obs.]
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     4. To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything
        mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.
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              Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again.
                                                    --Daniel.
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              The pointed javelin warded off his rage. --Addison.
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              It instructs the scholar in the various methods of
              warding off the force of objections.  --I. Watts.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ward
       n 1: a person who is under the protection or in the custody of
            another
       2: a district into which a city or town is divided for the
          purpose of administration and elections
       3: block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms)
          shared by patients who need a similar kind of care; "they
          put her in a 4-bed ward" [syn: {hospital ward}]
       4: English economist and conservationist (1914-1981) [syn: {Barbara
          Ward}, {Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth}]
       5: English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the
          women's suffrage movement (1851-1920) [syn: {Mrs. Humphrey
          Ward}, {Mary Augusta Arnold Ward}]
       6: United States businessman who in 1872 established a
          successful mail-order business (1843-1913) [syn: {Montgomery
          Ward}, {Asron Montgomery Ward}]
       7: a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells)
          [syn: {cellblock}]
       v : watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect; "guard my
           possessions while I'm away" [syn: {guard}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  240 Moby Thesaurus words for "ward":
     Kreis, VA hospital, X ray, acropolis, administration, aegis,
     archbishopric, archdiocese, armament, armor, arrondissement,
     asylum, auspices, avert, avoidance reaction, bailiwick, balk,
     base hospital, bastion, beachhead, bishopric, block, blockhouse,
     blood bank, borough, bridgehead, bunker, canton, care, castle,
     charge, charity ward, check, citadel, city, client, clinic,
     close borough, commune, community hospital, congressional district,
     constablewick, consultation room, convalescent home,
     convalescent hospital, county, cure, custodianship, custody,
     defence, defense, defense in depth, defense mechanism, defenses,
     deflect, delivery room, departement, dependent, deter,
     deterrent capacity, diocese, dispensary, district, divert, donjon,
     duchy, ego defenses, election district, electoral district,
     electorate, emergency, encumbrance, escape mechanism,
     evacuation hospital, examining room, fasthold, fastness, fend,
     fever ward, field hospital, foil, forestall, fort, fortress,
     frustrate, garrison, garrison house, general hospital, gerrymander,
     gerrymandered district, governance, government, guard,
     guardianship, guarding, guidance, halt, hamlet, hands, hold, home,
     hospital, hospital room, hundred, infirmary, inpatient clinic,
     intensive care, interrupt, isolation, jurisdiction, keep, keeping,
     labor room, laboratory, lookout, magistracy, maison de sante,
     management, martello, martello tower, maternity ward,
     mental hospital, metropolis, metropolitan area, ministry, mote,
     motte, negative taxis, nursery, nursing home, oblast, obviate,
     okrug, operating room, osteopathic hospital, outpatient clinic,
     oversight, parish, parry, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship,
     patronage, peel, peel tower, pensionary, pensioner, pharmacy,
     picket, pillbox, pocket borough, policlinic, polyclinic, post,
     precinct, preclude, preventive custody, principality, prison ward,
     private hospital, private room, proprietary hospital, protection,
     protective custody, protectorship, protege, province,
     psychological defenses, public charge, public hospital, rath,
     recovery room, region, resistance, rest home, riding,
     rotten borough, rule out, safe district, safe hands, safeguard,
     safehold, safekeeping, sanatorium, security, self-defense,
     self-preservation, self-protection, semi-private room, sentinel,
     sentry, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shield, shire, shrievalty,
     sick bay, sickbed, sickroom, silk-stocking district,
     single-member district, soke, special hospital, stake, state,
     station hospital, stave off, stay, stewardship, strong point,
     stronghold, stymie, surgery, surgical hospital, swing district,
     teaching hospital, territory, the defensive, therapy, thwart,
     tower, tower of strength, town, township, treatment room, trust,
     turn, turn aside, tutelage, veterans hospital, village,
     voluntary hospital, wapentake, wardenship, wardship, watch,
     watch and ward, watchman, well-baby clinic, wing
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Ward
     a prison (Gen. 40:3, 4); a watch-station (Isa. 21:8); a guard
     (Neh. 13:30).
     

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  WARD, domestic relations. An infant placed by authority of law under the 
  care of a guardian. 
       2. While under the care of a guardian a ward can make no contract 
  whatever binding upon him, except for necessaries. When the relation of 
  guardian and ward ceases, the latter is entitled to have an account of the 
  administration of his estate from the former. During the existence of this 
  relation, the ward is under the subjection of his guardian, who stands in 
  loco parentis. 
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  WARD, a district. Most cities are divided for various purposes into 
  districts, each of which is called a ward. 
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  WARD, police. To watch in the day time, for the purpose of preventing 
  violations of the law. 
       2. It is the duty of all police officers and constables to keep ward in 
  their respective districts. 
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Ward, AL
    Zip code(s): 36922
  Ward, AR (city, FIPS 73130)
    Location: 35.01886 N, 91.95503 W
    Population (1990): 1269 (506 housing units)
    Area: 8.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 72176
  Ward, CO (town, FIPS 82735)
    Location: 40.07250 N, 105.51128 W
    Population (1990): 159 (100 housing units)
    Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 80481
  Ward, SC (town, FIPS 74590)
    Location: 33.85719 N, 81.73232 W
    Population (1990): 132 (59 housing units)
    Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 29166
  Ward, SD (town, FIPS 68660)
    Location: 44.15536 N, 96.46079 W
    Population (1990): 35 (22 housing units)
    Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 57074

From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:

  Ward -- U.S. County in North Dakota
     Population (2000):    58795
     Housing Units (2000): 25097
     Land area (2000):     2012.883559 sq. miles (5213.344262 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    43.363629 sq. miles (112.311278 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    2056.247188 sq. miles (5325.655540 sq. km)
     Located within:       North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
     Location:             48.255894 N, 101.488391 W
     Headwords:
      Ward
      Ward, ND
      Ward County
      Ward County, ND
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:

  Ward -- U.S. County in Texas
     Population (2000):    10909
     Housing Units (2000): 4832
     Land area (2000):     835.492247 sq. miles (2163.914893 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.252109 sq. miles (0.652960 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    835.744356 sq. miles (2164.567853 sq. km)
     Located within:       Texas (TX), FIPS 48
     Location:             31.517740 N, 103.016977 W
     Headwords:
      Ward
      Ward, TX
      Ward County
      Ward County, TX
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Ward, AR -- U.S. city in Arkansas
     Population (2000):    2580
     Housing Units (2000): 1075
     Land area (2000):     3.894989 sq. miles (10.087974 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    3.894989 sq. miles (10.087974 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            73130
     Located within:       Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
     Location:             35.019996 N, 91.954987 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     72176
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Ward, AR
      Ward
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Ward, CO -- U.S. town in Colorado
     Population (2000):    169
     Housing Units (2000): 82
     Land area (2000):     0.569241 sq. miles (1.474328 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    0.569241 sq. miles (1.474328 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            82735
     Located within:       Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
     Location:             40.072347 N, 105.510131 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     80481
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Ward, CO
      Ward
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Ward, SC -- U.S. town in South Carolina
     Population (2000):    110
     Housing Units (2000): 62
     Land area (2000):     0.778374 sq. miles (2.015980 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    0.778374 sq. miles (2.015980 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            74590
     Located within:       South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
     Location:             33.857891 N, 81.732286 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     29166
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Ward, SC
      Ward
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Ward, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota
     Population (2000):    41
     Housing Units (2000): 22
     Land area (2000):     0.284691 sq. miles (0.737345 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    0.284691 sq. miles (0.737345 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            68660
     Located within:       South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
     Location:             44.154239 N, 96.461131 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     57074
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Ward, SD
      Ward