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Ward \Ward\, v. t. [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, ...

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A ward or guard (translating German Hut "protection") is a defensive position in the German school of swordsmanship . In Royal Armouries Ms. I.33 the concept is rendered as custodia "guard". Category:Swordsmanship

Usage examples of ward.

The adjutant by his elaborate courtesy appeared to wish to ward off any attempt at familiarity on the part of the Russian messenger.

During the last week or two Ward had obviously changed much, abandoning his attempts at affability and speaking only in hoarse but oddly repellent whispers on the few occasions that he ventured forth.

Ward himself tried to be more affable, but succeeded only in provoking curiousity with his rambling accounts of chemical research.

Another alderman, Nicholas Exton, of Queenhithe Ward, had recently been removed from his aldermancy for opprobrious words used to Northampton during his first mayoralty.

John Brown was elected alderman of Farringdon Within shortly afterWards, but he was discharged by the Common Council, and the aldermanry was subsequently filled by John Hardy being translated to it from Aldersgate Ward.

All three aldermen were deposed from their aldermanries by order of an assembly of citizens composed of representatives from the various guilds and not from the wards.

Around the wound they swarmed out in such numbers that Alec stepped back, instinctively raising his hand in a warding sign.

Ward refrained from shewing this letter to the alienists, they did not refrain from acting upon it themselves.

Ward, and had come to an agreement with him on several points which both felt the alienists would ridicule.

Standing on the city walls, mirror raised to catch the late afternoon light, Arra could see past the pockets of battle, past the men and women struggling to defeat an enemy their superior in both strength and numbers, past the black tents well warded against magical attack, and into the swath of destruction that stretched back to the border.

The mage had as much as said the amulet, the asphodel, and the raw snail were not enough by themselves to ward him fully.

The world moved slowly, trancelike, as Asteria agonizingly raised her thin arms to ward off the blow and I involuntarily did the same, even though distant from the blade by many yards, by a lifetime.

Salzwasserbrunnen, der das Auge der Tiefe genannt ward, weil er keinen Boden hatte und sein Grund nur das Meer war.

MAG-21, Sergeant Ward had been impressed with the Marine Aviator who had spent a year as a guerrilla in the Philippines.

Ward Mclntire, the man from the Bazooka bubble gum company, stood holding a glass bowl filled with gum all wrapped in shiny wax paper, each containing a shiny wax-paper cartoon inside.