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Not eared, or plowed. Shak.

Having no parent, or no acknowledged parent. [R.]

Deprived of virility, or seminal energy; made a eunuch. [Obs.]

Unaware; not foreseeing; being off one's guard. [Obs.] Chaucer. Fairfax.

Unawares; unexpectedly; -- sometimes preceded by at. [Obs.] Holinshed.

To stare or stand upward; hence, to be uplifted or conspicuous. "Rearing fiercely their upstaring crests." Spenser.

See Curare.

A wand or staff of authority or justice. [Obs.] His hand a vare of justice did uphold. Dryden.

The calcined ashes of any coarse seaweed used for the manufacture of soda and iodine; also, the seaweed itself; fucus; wrack.

The fieldfare. [Prov. Eng.]

See Vinaigrette, n., 2.

A woman who is a votary. Shak.

Seaweed. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Ware goose (Zoöl.), the brant; -- so called because it feeds on ware, or seaweed. [Prov. Eng.]

Wary; watchful; cautious. [Obs.]

Wariness; cautiousness. [Obs.] "Full of warefulness." Sir P. Sidney.

(Zoöl.) A Brazilian fly whose larvæ live in the skin of man and animals, producing painful sores.

A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison.

One who keeps a warehouse; the owner or keeper of a dock warehouse or wharf store.

The act of placing goods in a warehouse, or in a customhouse store. Warehousing system, an arrangement for lodging imported articles in the customhouse stores, without payment of duties until they are taken out for home consumption. If reëxported, they are not charged with a duty. See Bonded warehouse, under Bonded, a.…

Unwary; incautious; unheeding; careless; unaware. [Obs.] And wareless of the evil That by themselves unto themselves is wrought. Spenser.