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Aware; wary. [Obs.] "Be ywar, and his way shun." Piers Plowman.

Turned away; away. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large.

See Badderlocks.

The negative side. [R.] Howe'er you lean to the nayward. Shak.

Peltry. [Obs.]

Toward the sky.

Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful. My wife is in a wayward mood. Shak. Wayward beauty doth not fancy move. Fairfax. Wilt thou forgive the wayward thought Keble. -- Way"ward*ly, adv. -- Way"ward*ness, n.

ts by industry were . . . enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature. Hayward.

Allurement. [R.] Hayward.

To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out. Ships . . . appareled to fight. Hayward.

The act of appeasing, or the state of being appeased; pacification. Hayward.

h, being well appointed, did so entertain them that their ships departed terribly torn. Hayward.

Approbation. I did nothing without your approvement. Hayward.

e black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware.

The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia. [Obs.] Hayward.

ies. Motley. The day was yearly observed for a festival by cessation from labor. Sir J. Hayward. Cessation of arms (Mil.), an armistice, or truce, agreed to by the commanders of armies, to give time for a capitulation, or for other purposes.

To write in occult characters. His notes he ciphered with Greek characters. Hayward.

One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward.

o plan; to plot. He was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct any great fortune. Hayward.