Definition of guard

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Guard (n.) To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like..

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Guardless :: Guardless (a.) Without a guard or defense; unguarded.
Guardian :: Guardian (v. t.) One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs..
Varangian :: Varangian (n.) One of the Northmen who founded a dynasty in Russia in the 9th century; also, one of the Northmen composing, at a later date, the imperial bodyguard at Constantinople..
Bless :: Bless (v. t.) To guard; to keep; to protect.
Flanker :: Flanker (n.) One who, or that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army toguard a line of march, or a fort projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body..
Circumspectness :: Circumspectness (n.) Vigilance in guarding against evil from every quarter; caution.
Guard :: Guard (v. t.) A fence or rail to prevent falling from the deck of a vessel.
Warden :: Warden (n.) An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison..
Fortress :: Fortress (v. t.) To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.
Doorkeeper :: Doorkeeper (n.) One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.
Gard :: Gard (v. & n.) See Guard.
Watch :: Watch (v. t.) To tend; to guard; to have in keeping.
Suscipiency :: Susceptor (n.) One who undertakes anything; specifically, a godfather; a sponsor; a guardian..
Black Hole :: Black hole () A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air..
Beg :: Beg (v. t.) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for..
Ward :: Ward (n.) One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection..
Guard :: Guard (v. t.) One who, or that which, guards from injury, danger, exposure, or attack; defense; protection..
Guard :: Guard (v. t.) A plate of metal, beneath the stock, or the lock frame, of a gun or pistol, having a loop, called a bow, to protect the trigger..
Guardianage :: Guardianage (n.) Guardianship.
Curatrix :: Curatrix (n.) A woman who is a guardian or custodian.
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