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Umbriere :: Umbriere (n.) In ancient armor, a visor, or projection like the peak of a cap, to which a face guard was sometimes attached. This was sometimes fixed, and sometimes moved freely upon the helmet and could be raised like the beaver. Called also umber, and umbril..

Ward :: Ward (n.) One who, or that which, is guarded..

Chape :: Chape (n.) The transverse guard of a sword or dagger.

Wharf :: Wharf (v. t.) To guard or secure by a firm wall of timber or stone constructed like a wharf; to furnish with a wharf or wharfs.

Security :: Security (n.) That which secures or makes safe; protection; guard; defense.

Prefect :: Prefect (n.) A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.; as, the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, of provisions; the pretorian prefect, who was commander of the troops guarding the emperor's person..

Shepherd :: Shepherd (v. t.) To tend as a shepherd; to guard, herd, lead, or drive, as a shepherd..

Guard :: Guard (v. t.) Watch; heed; care; attention; as, to keep guard..

Guardian :: Guardian (v. t.) One who guards, preserves, or secures; one to whom any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from injury; a warden..

Guardsman :: Guardsman (n.) A member, either officer or private, of any military body called Guards..

Woodward :: Woodward (n.) An officer of the forest, whose duty it was to guard the woods..

Doublet :: Doublet (a.) One of two or more words in the same language derived by different courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc..

Custody :: Custody (n.) State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.

Wariness :: Wariness (n.) The quality or state of being wary; care to foresee and guard against evil; cautiousness.

Watch :: Watch (v. i.) The period of the night during which a person does duty as a sentinel, or guard; the time from the placing of a sentinel till his relief; hence, a division of the night..

Parole :: Parole (n.) A watchword given only to officers of guards; -- distinguished from countersign, which is given to all guards..

Hayward :: Hayward (n.) An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large..

Guard :: Guard (n.) To fasten by binding; to gird.

Counterwait :: Counterwait (v. t.) To wait or watch for; to be on guard against.

Guard :: Guard (v. t.) An extension of the deck of a vessel beyond the hull; esp., in side-wheel steam vessels, the framework of strong timbers, which curves out on each side beyond the paddle wheel, and protects it and the shaft against collision..

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