Skip to main content
Search Section
Skip alphabetical navigation menu.

Browse Alphabetically

  • English Word Guard Definition 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.
  • English Word Guard Definition To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.
  • English Word Guard Definition To protect the edge of, esp. with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.
  • English Word Guard Definition To fasten by binding; to gird.
  • English Word Guard Definition To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety; as, careful persons guard against mistakes.
  • English Word Guard Definition One who, or that which, guards from injury, danger, exposure, or attack; defense; protection.
  • English Word Guard Definition A man, or body of men, stationed to protect or control a person or position; a watch; a sentinel.
  • English Word Guard Definition One who has charge of a mail coach or a railway train; a conductor.
  • English Word Guard Definition Any fixture or attachment designed to protect or secure against injury, soiling, or defacement, theft or loss
  • English Word Guard Definition That part of a sword hilt which protects the hand.
  • English Word Guard Definition Ornamental lace or hem protecting the edge of a garment.
  • English Word Guard Definition A chain or cord for fastening a watch to one's person or dress.
  • English Word Guard Definition A fence or rail to prevent falling from the deck of a vessel.
  • English Word Guard Definition An extension of the deck of a vessel beyond the hull; esp., in side-wheel steam vessels, the framework of strong timbers, which curves out on each side beyond the paddle wheel, and protects it and the shaft against collision.
  • English Word Guard Definition A plate of metal, beneath the stock, or the lock frame, of a gun or pistol, having a loop, called a bow, to protect the trigger.
  • English Word Guard Definition An interleaved strip at the back, as in a scrap book, to guard against its breaking when filled.
  • English Word Guard Definition A posture of defense in fencing, and in bayonet and saber exercise.
  • English Word Guard Definition An expression or admission intended to secure against objections or censure.
  • English Word Guard Definition Watch; heed; care; attention; as, to keep guard.
  • English Word Guard Definition The fibrous sheath which covers the phragmacone of the Belemnites.
  • English Word Guardable Definition Capable of being guarded or protected.
  • English Word Guardage Definition Wardship
  • English Word Guardant Definition Acting as guardian.
  • English Word Guardant Definition Same as Gardant.
  • English Word Guardant Definition A guardian.
  • English Word Guarded Definition of Guard
  • English Word Guarded Definition Cautious; wary; circumspect; as, he was guarded in his expressions; framed or uttered with caution; as, his expressions were guarded.
  • English Word Guardenage Definition Guardianship.
  • English Word Guarder Definition One who guards.
  • English Word Guardfish Definition The garfish.