14 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
-ward \-ward\ (w[~e]rd), -wards \-wards\ (w[~e]rdz). [AS. -weard, -weardes; akin to OS. & OFries. -ward. OHG. -wert, G. -w["a]rts, Icel. -ver[eth]r, Goth. -va['i]r[thorn]s, L. vertere to turn, versus toward, and E. worth to become. [root]143. See {Worth}. verb (used without an object), and cf. {Verse}. Adverbs ending in -wards (AS. -weardes) and some other adverbs, such as besides, betimes, since (OE. sithens). etc., were originally genitive forms used adverbially.] Suffixes denoting course or direction to; motion or tendency toward; as in backward, or backwards; toward, or towards, etc.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ward \Ward\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Warded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Warding}.] [OE. wardien, AS. weardian to keep, protect; akin to OS. ward?n to watch, take care, OFries. wardia, OHG. wart?n, G. warten to wait, wait on, attend to, Icel. var?a to guarantee defend, Sw. v[*a]rda to guard, to watch; cf. OF. warder, of German origin. See {Ward}, noun, and cf. {Award}, {Guard}, {Reward}.]
1. To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time.
Whose gates he found fast shut, no living wight To ward the same. --Spenser.
Tell him it was a hand that warded him From thousand dangers. --Shak.
3. To defend by walls, fortifications, etc. [Obs.]
4. To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.
Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again. --Daniel.
The pointed javelin warded off his rage. --Addison.
It instructs the scholar in the various methods of warding off the force of objections. --I. Watts.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ward \Ward\, noun [AS. weard, fem., guard, weard, masc., keeper, guard; akin to OS. ward a watcher, warden, G. wart, OHG. wart, Icel. v["o]r[eth]r a warden, a watch, Goth. -wards in da['u]rawards a doorkeeper, and E. wary; cf. OF. warde guard, from the German. See {Ware}, adjective, {Wary}, and cf. {Guard}, {Wraith}.]
1. The act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship; specifically, a guarding during the day. See the Note under {Watch}, noun, 1.
Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward. --Spenser.
2. One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection.
For the best ward of mine honor. --Shak.
The assieged castle's ward Their steadfast stands did mightily maintain. --Spenser.
For want of other ward, He lifted up his hand, his front to guard. --Dryden.
3. The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody.
And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard. --Gen. xl. 3.
I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward. --Shak.
It is also inconvenient, in Ireland, that the wards and marriages of gentlemen's children should be in the disposal of any of those lords. --Spenser.
4. A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard. ''Thou knowest my old ward; here I lay, and thus I bore my point.'' --Shak.
5. One who, or that which, is guarded. Specifically: (a) A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery. ''You know our father's ward, the fair Monimia.'' --Otway. (b) A division of a county. [Eng. & Scot.] (c) A division, district, or quarter of a town or city.
Throughout the trembling city placed a guard, Dealing an equal share to every ward. --Dryden. (d) A division of a forest. [Eng.] (e) A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward.
6. (a) A projecting ridge of metal in the interior of a lock, to prevent the use of any key which has not a corresponding notch for passing it. (b) A notch or slit in a key corresponding to a ridge in the lock which it fits; a ward notch. --Knight.
The lock is made . . . more secure by attaching wards to the front, as well as to the back, plate of the lock, in which case the key must be furnished with corresponding notches. --Tomlinson.
{Ward penny} (O. Eng. Law), money paid to the sheriff or castellan for watching and warding a castle.
{Ward staff}, a constable's or watchman's staff. [Obs.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ward \Ward\, verb (used without an object)
1. To be vigilant; to keep guard.
2. To act on the defensive with a weapon.
She redoubling her blows drove the stranger to no other shift than to ward and go back. --Sir P. Sidney.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another
2: a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections
3: block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care; "they put her in a 4-bed ward" [syn: {hospital ward}]
4: English economist and conservationist (1914-1981) [syn: {Barbara Ward}, {Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth}]
5: English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women's suffrage movement (1851-1920) [syn: {Mrs. Humphrey Ward}, {Mary Augusta Arnold Ward}]
6: United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913) [syn: {Montgomery Ward}, {Asron Montgomery Ward}]
7: a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells) [syn: {cellblock}]
verb
1: watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect; "guard my possessions while I'm away" [syn: {guard}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
240 Moby Thesaurus words for "ward": Kreis, VA hospital, X ray, acropolis, administration, aegis, archbishopric, archdiocese, armament, armor, arrondissement, asylum, auspices, avert, avoidance reaction, bailiwick, balk, base hospital, bastion, beachhead, bishopric, block, blockhouse, blood bank, borough, bridgehead, bunker, canton, care, castle, charge, charity ward, check, citadel, city, client, clinic, close borough, commune, community hospital, congressional district, constablewick, consultation room, convalescent home, convalescent hospital, county, cure, custodianship, custody, defence, defense, defense in depth, defense mechanism, defenses, deflect, delivery room, departement, dependent, deter, deterrent capacity, diocese, dispensary, district, divert, donjon, duchy, ego defenses, election district, electoral district, electorate, emergency, encumbrance, escape mechanism, evacuation hospital, examining room, fasthold, fastness, fend, fever ward, field hospital, foil, forestall, fort, fortress, frustrate, garrison, garrison house, general hospital, gerrymander, gerrymandered district, governance, government, guard, guardianship, guarding, guidance, halt, hamlet, hands, hold, home, hospital, hospital room, hundred, infirmary, inpatient clinic, intensive care, interrupt, isolation, jurisdiction, keep, keeping, labor room, laboratory, lookout, magistracy, maison de sante, management, martello, martello tower, maternity ward, mental hospital, metropolis, metropolitan area, ministry, mote, motte, negative taxis, nursery, nursing home, oblast, obviate, okrug, operating room, osteopathic hospital, outpatient clinic, oversight, parish, parry, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship, patronage, peel, peel tower, pensionary, pensioner, pharmacy, picket, pillbox, pocket borough, policlinic, polyclinic, post, precinct, preclude, preventive custody, principality, prison ward, private hospital, private room, proprietary hospital, protection, protective custody, protectorship, protege, province, psychological defenses, public charge, public hospital, rath, recovery room, region, resistance, rest home, riding, rotten borough, rule out, safe district, safe hands, safeguard, safehold, safekeeping, sanatorium, security, self-defense, self-preservation, self-protection, semi-private room, sentinel, sentry, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shield, shire, shrievalty, sick bay, sickbed, sickroom, silk-stocking district, single-member district, soke, special hospital, stake, state, station hospital, stave off, stay, stewardship, strong point, stronghold, stymie, surgery, surgical hospital, swing district, teaching hospital, territory, the defensive, therapy, thwart, tower, tower of strength, town, township, treatment room, trust, turn, turn aside, tutelage, veterans hospital, village, voluntary hospital, wapentake, wardenship, wardship, watch, watch and ward, watchman, well-baby clinic, wing
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Ward, AL Zip code(s): 36922 Ward, AR (city, FIPS 73130) Location: 35.01886 N, 91.95503 W Population (1990): 1269 (506 housing units) Area: 8.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 72176 Ward, CO (town, FIPS 82735) Location: 40.07250 N, 105.51128 W Population (1990): 159 (100 housing units) Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 80481 Ward, SC (town, FIPS 74590) Location: 33.85719 N, 81.73232 W Population (1990): 132 (59 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 29166 Ward, SD (town, FIPS 68660) Location: 44.15536 N, 96.46079 W Population (1990): 35 (22 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 57074
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Ward, AR -- U.S. city in Arkansas Population (2000): 2580 Housing Units (2000): 1075 Land area (2000): 3.894989 sq. miles (10.087974 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 3.894989 sq. miles (10.087974 sq. km) FIPS code: 73130 Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05 Location: 35.019996 N, 91.954987 W ZIP Codes (1990): 72176 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Ward, AR Ward
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Ward, CO -- U.S. town in Colorado Population (2000): 169 Housing Units (2000): 82 Land area (2000): 0.569241 sq. miles (1.474328 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.569241 sq. miles (1.474328 sq. km) FIPS code: 82735 Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08 Location: 40.072347 N, 105.510131 W ZIP Codes (1990): 80481 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Ward, CO Ward
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Ward, SC -- U.S. town in South Carolina Population (2000): 110 Housing Units (2000): 62 Land area (2000): 0.778374 sq. miles (2.015980 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.778374 sq. miles (2.015980 sq. km) FIPS code: 74590 Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45 Location: 33.857891 N, 81.732286 W ZIP Codes (1990): 29166 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Ward, SC Ward
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Ward, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota Population (2000): 41 Housing Units (2000): 22 Land area (2000): 0.284691 sq. miles (0.737345 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.284691 sq. miles (0.737345 sq. km) FIPS code: 68660 Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46 Location: 44.154239 N, 96.461131 W ZIP Codes (1990): 57074 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Ward, SD Ward
From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:
Ward -- U.S. County in North Dakota Population (2000): 58795 Housing Units (2000): 25097 Land area (2000): 2012.883559 sq. miles (5213.344262 sq. km) Water area (2000): 43.363629 sq. miles (112.311278 sq. km) Total area (2000): 2056.247188 sq. miles (5325.655540 sq. km) Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38 Location: 48.255894 N, 101.488391 W Headwords: Ward Ward, ND Ward County Ward County, ND
From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:
Ward -- U.S. County in Texas Population (2000): 10909 Housing Units (2000): 4832 Land area (2000): 835.492247 sq. miles (2163.914893 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.252109 sq. miles (0.652960 sq. km) Total area (2000): 835.744356 sq. miles (2164.567853 sq. km) Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48 Location: 31.517740 N, 103.016977 W Headwords: Ward Ward, TX Ward County Ward County, TX
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Ward a prison (Gen. 40:3, 4); a watch-station (Isa. 21:8); a guard (Neh. 13:30).
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