Definition of guard

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Guard (v. t.) Any fixture or attachment designed to protect or secure against injury, soiling, or defacement, theft or loss.

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Were :: Were (v. t.) To guard; to protect.
Guardant :: Guardant (v. t.) Acting as guardian.
Aware :: Aware (a.) Watchful; vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.
Ravishment :: Ravishment (n.) The act of carrying away by force or against consent; abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, of a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband..
Guardiance :: Guardiance (n.) Guardianship.
Beg :: Beg (v. t.) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for..
Castle-guard :: Castle-guard (n.) A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time..
Bridge-ward :: Bridge-ward (n.) A bridge keeper; a warden or a guard for a bridge.
Derelict :: Derelict (a.) Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands..
Free :: Free (superl.) Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master..
Warden :: Warden (n.) An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison..
Beguard :: Beguard (n.) One of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by Innocent X. in 1650. Called also Beguins..
Castle-guard :: Castle-guard (n.) A tax or imposition an a dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in it; castle-ward..
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..
Ward :: Ward (n.) The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody.
Ward :: Ward (n.) To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time..
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..
Tutor :: Tutor (v. t.) To have the guardianship or care of; to teach; to instruct.
Patrol :: Patrol (v. i.) Any perambulation of a particular line or district to guard it; also, the men thus guarding; as, a customs patrol; a fire patrol..
Presidary :: Presidary (n.) A guard.
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