Definition of guard

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Guard (v. t.) An expression or admission intended to secure against objections or censure.

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Tutorship :: Tutorship (n.) The office, duty, or care of a tutor; guardianship; tutelage..
Umbrella :: Umbrella (n.) A shade, screen, or guard, carried in the hand for sheltering the person from the rays of the sun, or from rain or snow. It is formed of silk, cotton, or other fabric, extended on strips of whalebone, steel, or other elastic material, inserted, or fastened to, a rod or stick by means of pivots or hinges, in such a way as to allow of being opened and closed with ease. See Parasol..
Guard :: Guard (n.) To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend; to shelter; to shield from surprise or attack; to protect by attendance; to accompany for protection; to care for..
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..
Fence :: Fence (v. i.) To make a defense; to guard one's self of anything, as against an attack; to give protection or security, as by a fence..
Contravallation :: Contravallation (n.) A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged..
Shelter :: Shelter (n.) One who protects; a guardian; a defender.
Vanguard :: Vanguard (n.) The troops who march in front of an army; the advance guard; the van.
Blackguard :: Blackguard (a.) Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language..
Guardsmen :: Guardsmen (pl. ) of Guardsma.
Economical :: Economical (a.) Managing with frugality; guarding against waste or unnecessary expense; careful and frugal in management and in expenditure; -- said of character or habits.
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..
Insecure :: Insecure (a.) Not effectually guarded, protected, or sustained; unsafe; unstable; exposed to danger or loss..
Tutorage :: Tutorage (n.) The office or occupation of a tutor; tutorship; guardianship.
Defend :: Defend (v. t.) To repel danger or harm from; to protect; to secure against; attack; to maintain against force or argument; to uphold; to guard; as, to defend a town; to defend a cause; to defend character; to defend the absent; -- sometimes followed by from or against; as, to defend one's self from, or against, one's enemies..
Watchman :: Watchman (n.) Specifically, one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night..
Counterwait :: Counterwait (v. t.) To wait or watch for; to be on guard against.
Blackguard :: Blackguard (n.) A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.
Camail :: Camail (n.) A neck guard of chain mall, hanging from the bascinet or other headpiece..
Pupil :: Pupil (n.) A person under a guardian; a ward.
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