Definition of ward

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Ward (n.) To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time..

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Seaboard :: Seaboard (adv.) Toward the sea.
Upwards :: Upwards (adv.) In the upper parts; above.
South :: South (adv.) Toward the south; southward.
Adjudge :: Adjudge (v. t.) To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor..
Obvert :: Obvert (v. t.) To turn toward.
Farther :: Farther (v. t.) To help onward. [R.] See Further.
#NAME? :: -ward (v. i.) Alt. of -ward.
Onward :: Onward (adv.) Toward a point before or in front; forward; progressively; as, to move onward..
Bungle :: Bungle (v. t.) To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; -- sometimes with up.
Ex Postfacto :: Ex postfacto () From or by an after act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective..
Weevil :: Weevil (n.) Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved downward. Many of the species are very injurious to cultivated plants. The larvae of some of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under Plum, Nut, and Grain). The larvae of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as th
Leg :: Leg (n.) A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing..
Averse :: Averse (a.) Turned away or backward.
Swarded :: Sward (n.) The grassy surface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf.
Thermotropism :: Thermotropism (n.) The phenomenon of turning towards a source of warmth, seen in the growing parts of some plants..
Fore :: Fore (adv.) Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed to back or behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon..
Periscii :: Periscii (n. pl.) Those who live within a polar circle, whose shadows, during some summer days, will move entirely round, falling toward every point of the compass..
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.
Inwardly :: Inwardly (adv.) Intimately; thoroughly.
Endosmosis :: Endosmosis (n.) The transmission of a fluid or gas from without inward in the phenomena, or by the process, of osmose..
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