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One who guards; a guard.

The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails. Totten.

A inferior brandy of Spain and Portugal.

The van or advanced body of an army. See Vanguard.

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.

One of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by Innocent X. in

arge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army. [Obs.] A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the black guard in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping pans. Webster (1612).

The conduct or language of a blackguard; rufflanism.

In the manner of or resembling a blackguard; abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly.

A guard to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard.

The guard or defense of a castle.

A joint guardian.

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.

To surround as with a guard. [Obs.] Shak.

Guard. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Infantry soldiers belonging to select regiments called the Guards. [Eng.]

A body of cavalry so called; esp., a British regiment, called the Royal Horse Guards, which furnishes guards of state for the sovereign. The Horse Guards, a name given to the former headquarters of the commander in chief of the British army, at Whitehall in London.

A guard or small body of troops at a distance from the main body of an army, to watch for the approach of an enemy; hence, anything for defense placed at a distance from the thing to be defended.

Same as Regardant.

ne who, or that which, defends or protects; defense; protection. Shak. Thy sword, the safeguard of thy brother's throne. Granwille.