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parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz., the father and (in some cases) the mother of the child. Blockstone. Guardian ad litem ( (Law), a guardian appointed by a court of justice to conduct a particular suit. -- Guardi…

Guardianship. [Obs.]

Guardianship. [Obs.]

A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.

Without a guardian. Marston.

The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.

Of or pertaining to the islands called Hebrides, west of Scotland. -- n.

One of a party among the Jews, composed of partisans of Herod of Galilee. They joined with the Pharisees against Christ.

Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars; the Indian tomahawk.

An Indiaman.

Of or pertaining to the interval or zone along the sea bottom, at the depth of between fifty and one hundred fathoms. E. Forbes.

Intermediate. [Obs.]

Intermundane. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to the iris or rainbow.

The act of irradiating; emission of rays of light.

Irradiating or illuminating; as, the irradiant moon. Boyse.

A tick of the genus Ixodes, or the family Ixodidæ.

Of or pertaining to the Leptocardia. -- n.

s, the music in which was of a soft, pathetic, or voluptuous character. Softly sweet in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. Dryden. Lydian stone, a flint slate used by the ancients to try gold and silver; a touchstone. See Basanite.

A macropod.