Definition of ward

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

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Wash :: Wash (n.) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc..
Brave :: Brave (superl.) Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act..
Adduct :: Adduct (v. t.) To draw towards a common center or a middle line.
Retiring :: Retiring (a.) Reserved; shy; not forward or obtrusive; as, retiring modesty; retiring manners..
Basset :: Basset (v. i.) To inclined upward so as to appear at the surface; to crop out; as, a vein of coal bassets..
Patronize :: Patronize (v. t.) To act as patron toward; to support; to countenance; to favor; to aid.
Bigoted :: Bigoted (a.) Obstinately and blindly attached to some creed, opinion practice, or ritual; unreasonably devoted to a system or party, and illiberal toward the opinions of others..
Inwards :: Inwards (a.) Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward..
Dapifer :: Dapifer (n.) One who brings meat to the table; hence, in some countries, the official title of the grand master or steward of the king's or a nobleman's household..
Aim :: Aim (v. i.) The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, in the line of direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it..
Rereward :: Rereward (n.) The rear guard of an army.
Exodic :: Exodic (a.) Conducting influences from the spinal cord outward; -- said of the motor or efferent nerves. Opposed to esodic.
Heliotropic :: Heliotropic (a.) Manifesting heliotropism; turning toward the sun.
Beguard :: Beguard (n.) One of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by Innocent X. in 1650. Called also Beguins..
Hospitable :: Hospitable (a.) Receiving and entertaining strangers or guests with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and guests; characterized by hospitality.
Upstreet :: Upstreet (adv.) Toward the higher part of a street; as, to walk upstreet..
Back :: Back (v. i.) To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen..
Down :: Down (adv.) In the direction of gravity or toward the center of the earth; toward or in a lower place or position; below; -- the opposite of up.
Bore :: Bore (v. i.) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
Whitherward :: Whitherward (adv.) In what direction; toward what or which place.
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