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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Leaning :: Leaning (n.) The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism..
Breast :: Breast (n.) Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill..
Projectile :: Projectile (a.) Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force..
Pull :: Pull (v. t.) To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar..
Indraught :: Indraught (n.) A draught of air or flow of water setting inward.
Retroaction :: Retroaction (n.) Action returned, or action backward..
Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship..
Foreright :: Foreright (a.) Ready; directly forward; going before.
Tend :: Tend (a.) To move in a certain direction; -- usually with to or towards.
Towards :: Towards (prep.) Near; about; approaching to.
Allege :: Allege (v. t.) To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact..
Reciprocate :: Reciprocate (v. i.) To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.
Drive :: Drive (v. t.) To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like..
Thermotropism :: Thermotropism (n.) The phenomenon of turning towards a source of warmth, seen in the growing parts of some plants..
Balance :: Balance (n.) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to balance partners..
Christian :: Christian (n.) One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ..
Prone :: Prone (a.) Headlong; running downward or headlong.
Pixie :: Pixie (n.) A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring..
Centripetal :: Centripetal (a.) Having the radicle turned toward the axis of the fruit, as some embryos..
Involuted :: Involuted (a.) Rolled inward from the edges; -- said of leaves in vernation, or of the petals of flowers in aestivation..
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