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One who makes or gives a guaranty; a warrantor; a surety.

duty, of another, in case of the failure of such other to pay or perform; a guarantee; a warranty; a security.

Wardship [Obs.] Shak.

Cautious; wary; circumspect; as, he was guarded in his expressions; framed or uttered with caution; as, his expressions were guarded. -- Guard"edly, adv. -- Guard"ed*ness, n.

Cautions; wary; watchful. [Obs. or Poetic.] -- Guard"ful*ly, adv.

any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from injury; a warden.

An irregular mode of carrying on war, by the constant attacks of independent bands, adopted in the north of Spain during the Peninsular war.

A guess warp.

A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; -- so called because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.

d an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. John i. 47. To wage by force or guile eternal war. Milton.

A large deposit of ore in a lode. Gulf Stream (Geog.), the warm ocean current of the North Atlantic.

The number of guns carried by a ship of war.

A warrant officer in the navy having charge of the ordnance on a vessel.

An apartment on the after end of the lower gun deck of a ship of war, usually occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers, except the captain; -- called wardroom in the United States navy.

To deal in small wares. [R.] To haberdash in earth's base ware. Quarles.

A dealer in small wares, as tapes, pins, needles, and thread; also, a hatter. [Obs.] The haberdasher heapeth wealth by hats. Gascoigne.

The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; also (Fig.), trifles. Burke.

Warm-blooded; homoiothermal.

The shape of a half-moon; a crescent. See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. Milton.

arrest of progress. Without any halt they marched. Clarendon. [Lovers] soon in passion's war contest, Yet in their march soon make a halt. Davenant.