Definition of ward

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

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Lop :: Lop (v. i.) To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
Bumpkin :: Bumpkin (n.) An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout..
Granger :: Granger (n.) A farm steward.
Lyrid :: Lyrid (n.) One of the group of shooting stars which come into the air in certain years on or about the 19th of April; -- so called because the apparent path among the stars the stars if produced back wards crosses the constellation Lyra.
Adduction :: Adduction (n.) The act of adducing or bringing forward.
Godild :: Godild () A corruption of God yield, i. e., God reward or bless..
West :: West (n.) The Westen hemisphere, or the New World so called, it having been discovered by sailing westward from Europe; the Occident..
Wardmote :: 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..
Whirlwind :: Whirlwind (n.) Fig.: A body of objects sweeping violently onward.
Southness :: Southness (n.) A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole.
Heliotropic :: Heliotropic (a.) Manifesting heliotropism; turning toward the sun.
Subserous :: Subsequently (adv.) At a later time; afterwards.
Snub :: Snub (v. t.) To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly..
Wash :: Wash (n.) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc..
Sell :: Sell (v. t.) To make a matter of bargain and sale of; to accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray..
Honest :: Honest (a.) Characterized by integrity or fairness and straight/forwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc.; upright; just; equitable; trustworthy; truthful; sincere; free from fraud, guile, or duplicity; not false; -- said of persons and acts, and of things to which a moral quality is imputed; as, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain; an honest business; an honest book; an honest confession..
Sware :: Swardy (a.) Covered with sward or grass.
Respect :: Respect (v. t.) To look toward; to front upon or toward.
Restitution :: Restitution (v.) The movement of rotetion which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labor..
Crisis :: Crisis (n.) That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat..
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