Word Meanings - WARDSMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A man who keeps ward; a guard. Sydney Smith.

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• GUARDIAN
  One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
• GUARDANT
  See GARDANT (more info) 1. Acting as guardian. Shak.
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• GUARDIANESS
  A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
• GUARDIANLESS
  Without a guardian. Marston.
• GUARDER
  One who guards.
• GUARDS
  A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards."
• SMITHSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Englishman J.L.M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D.C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports. -- n.
• GUARDHOUSE
  A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up.
• GUARDED
  Cautious; wary; circumspect; as, he was guarded in his expressions; framed or uttered with caution; as, his expressions were guarded. -- Guard"edly, adv. -- Guard"ed*ness, n.
• SMITHSONITE
  Native zinc carbonate. It generally occurs in stalactitic, reniform, or botryoidal shapes, of a white to gray, green, or brown color. See Note under Calamine.
• SMITHER
  Fragments; atoms; finders. Smash the bottle to smithers. Tennyson. (more info) 1. Light, fine rain. 2. pl.
• SMITH
  Icel. smi, Dan. & Sw. smed, Goth. smi ; cf. Gr. 1. One who forgess with the hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like. Piers Plowman. Nor yet the smith hath learned to form a sword. Tate. 2. One who
• GUARDFISH
  The garfish.
• SMITHCRAFT
  The art or occupation of a smith; smithing. Sir W. Raleigh.
• GUARDENAGE
  Guardianship. " His tuition and guardenage." Holland.
• GUARDIANAGE
  Guardianship.
• GUARDAGE
  Wardship Shak.
• GUARDFUL
  Cautions; wary; watchful. -- Guard"ful*ly, adv.
• GUARD
  1. 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; toaccompany for protection; to vare for. For Heaven still guards the
• COUNTERGUARD
  A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.
• COGUARDIAN
  A joint guardian.
• VANGUARD
  The troops who march in front of an army; the advance guard; the van. (more info) avant before, fore + garde guard. See Avant, Ab-,Ante-, and Guard,
• AXLE GUARD
  The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically; -- also called a jaw in the United States, and a housing in England.
• SAFEGUARD
  1. One who, or that which, defends or protects; defense; protection. Shak. Thy sword, the safeguard of thy brother's throne. Granwille. 2. A convoy or guard to protect a traveler or property. 3. A pass; a passport; a safe-conduct. Shak.
• STACK-GUARD
  A covering or protection, as a canvas, for a stack.
• WHITESMITH
  1. One who works in tinned or galvanized iron, or white iron; a tinsmith. 2. A worker in iron who finishes or polishes the work, in distinction from one who forges it.
• LOCKSMITH
  An artificer whose occupation is to make or mend locks.