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A house in which a watch or guard is placed.

One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel.

A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password.

One of certain minute pores in the leaves of some plants. They are without true guardian cells, but in other respects closely resemble ordinary stomata. Goodale.

That which serves to guard from falling water; a drip or dripstone.

impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable; as, weak resolutions; weak virtue. Guard thy heart On this weak side, where most our nature fails. Addison.

That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it; as;

To guard; to protect. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To guard or secure by a firm wall of timber or stone constructed like a wharf; to furnish with a wharf or wharfs.

An officer of the forest, whose duty it was to guard the woods.

for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness. The men assisted the laird in his sporting parties, wormed his dogs, and cut the ears of his terrier puppies. Sir W. Scott.

r of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green. "A long motley coat guarded with yellow." Shak.

A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry. [Eng.]