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

Preserve :: Preserve (v. t.) To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect..

Guardant :: Guardant (v. t.) Same as Gardant.

Wardship :: Wardship (n.) The office of a ward or keeper; care and protection of a ward; guardianship; right of guardianship.

Primipilar :: Primipilar (a.) Of or pertaining to the captain of the vanguard of a Roman army.

Gard :: Gard (v. & n.) See Guard.

Guard :: Guard (v. t.) A chain or cord for fastening a watch to one's person or dress.

Water Pore :: Water pore () One of certain minute pores in the leaves of some plants. They are without true guardian cells, but in other respects closely resemble ordinary stomata..

Beefeater :: Beefeater (n.) One of the yeomen of the guard, in England..

Guardian :: Guardian (a.) Performing, or appropriate to, the office of a protector; as, a guardian care..

Argus :: Argus (n.) A fabulous being of antiquity, said to have had a hundred eyes, who has placed by Juno to guard Io. His eyes were transplanted to the peacock's tail..

Foot Guards :: Foot Guards (pl.) Infantry soldiers belonging to select regiments called the Guards.

Hesperides :: Hesperides (n. pl.) The daughters of Hesperus, or Night (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules. Called also Atlantides..

Watchword :: Watchword (n.) A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password..

Watch :: Watch (v. i.) The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or preventive vigilance; formerly, a watching or guarding by night..

Outguard :: Outguard (n.) A guard or small body of troops at a distance from the main body of an army, to watch for the approach of an enemy; hence, anything for defense placed at a distance from the thing to be defended..

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..

Taslet :: Taslet (n.) A piece of armor formerly worn to guard the things; a tasse.

Governor :: Governor (n.) One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.

Sentry :: Sentry (n.) Guard; watch, as by a sentinel..

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