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English Dictionary: ward by the DICT Development Group
7 results for ward
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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"
    Synonym(s): ward, hospital ward
  4. English economist and conservationist (1914-1981)
    Synonym(s): Ward, Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
  5. English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women's suffrage movement (1851-1920)
    Synonym(s): Ward, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold Ward
  6. United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913)
    Synonym(s): Ward, Montgomery Ward, Aaron Montgomery Ward
  7. a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells)
    Synonym(s): cellblock, ward
v
  1. watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect; "guard my possessions while I'm away"
    Synonym(s): guard, ward
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   -ward \-ward\ (w[etil]rd), -wards \-wards\ (w[etil]rdz). [AS.
      -weard, -weardes; akin to OS. & OFries. -ward. OHG. -wert, G.
      -w[84]rts, Icel. -ver[eb]r, Goth. -va[a1]r[ed]s, L. vertere
      to turn, versus toward, and E. worth to become. [fb]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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ward \Ward\, n. [AS. weard, fem., guard, weard, masc., keeper,
      guard; akin to OS. ward a watcher, warden, G. wart, OHG.
      wart, Icel. v[94]r[edh]r a warden, a watch, Goth. -wards in
      da[a3]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.
  
                     Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
      2. One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender;
            protector; means of guarding; defense; protection.
  
                     For the best ward of mine honor.         --Shak.
  
                     The assieged castle's ward Their steadfast stands
                     did mightily maintain.                        --Spenser.
  
                     For want of other ward, He lifted up his hand, his
                     front to guard.                                 --Dryden.
  
      3. The state of being under guard or guardianship;
            confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a
            guardian; custody.
  
                     And he put them in ward in the house of the captain
                     of the guard.                                    --Gen. xl. 3.
  
                     I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am
                     now in ward.                                       --Shak.
  
                     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.
  
      4. A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing;
            guard. [bd]Thou knowest my old ward; here I lay, and thus
            I bore my point.[b8] --Shak.
  
      5. One who, or that which, is guarded. Specifically:
            (a) A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a
                  ward in chancery. [bd]You know our father's ward, the
                  fair Monimia.[b8] --Otway.
            (b) A division of a county. [Eng. & Scot.]
            (c) A division, district, or quarter of a town or city.
  
                           Throughout the trembling city placed a guard,
                           Dealing an equal share to every ward. --Dryden.
            (d) A division of a forest. [Eng.]
            (e) A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward.
  
      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.
  
                           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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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[86]rda to guard, to watch;
      cf. OF. warder, of German origin. See {Ward}, n., and cf.
      {Award}, {Guard}, {Reward}.]
      1. To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a
            specific sense, to guard during the day time.
  
                     Whose gates he found fast shut, no living wight To
                     ward the same.                                    --Spenser.
  
      2. To defend; to protect.
  
                     Tell him it was a hand that warded him From thousand
                     dangers.                                             --Shak.
  
      3. To defend by walls, fortifications, etc. [Obs.]
  
      4. To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything
            mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.
  
                     Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again.
                                                                              --Daniel.
  
                     The pointed javelin warded off his rage. --Addison.
  
                     It instructs the scholar in the various methods of
                     warding off the force of objections.   --I. Watts.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ward \Ward\, v. i.
      1. To be vigilant; to keep guard.
  
      2. To act on the defensive with a weapon.
  
                     She redoubling her blows drove the stranger to no
                     other shift than to ward and go back. --Sir P.
                                                                              Sidney.

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 Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Ward
      a prison (Gen. 40:3, 4); a watch-station (Isa. 21:8); a guard
      (Neh. 13:30).
     
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