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A keeper; a guardian; a watchman. He called to the warden on the . . . battlements. Sir. W. Scott.

The office or jurisdiction of a warden.

ced in front of the smoldering fire, with decanters, a jar of tobacco, and two long churchwardens. W. Black.

The office of a churchwarden.

An officer who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; -- called also fireward.

The warden, or keeper of a jail.

An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia.

A bridge keeper; a warden or a guard for a bridge. [Obs.] Sir W. Scott.

of weak mind; a bugbear. And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. Mountfort (1691).

A goveror or warden of a castle.

A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden. [Obs.] Bailey.

s a contention in public. Shak. Away therefore went I with the constable, leaving the old warden and the young constable to compose their difference as they could. T. Ellwood.

To guard as a churchwarden does. [Obs.] J. Gregory.

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

A warden of the marches; a marcher.

- Port toll (Law), a payment made for the privilege of bringing goods into port. -- Port warden, the officer in charge of a port; a harbor master.

A port warden.

nheriting property or power. Locke. I went to Lambeth with Sir R. Brown's pretense to the wardenship of Merton College, Oxford. Evelyn.

, and the towns of some States of the United States, certain church officials, as a churchwarden, etc.

A churchwarden's assistant; a sidesman. Blount. [Obs.]