Definition of ward

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Ward (n.) A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery..

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Rise :: Rise (v.) To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction..
Involuted :: Involuted (a.) Rolled inward spirally.
Uphill :: Uphill (adv.) Upwards on, or as on, a hillside; as, to walk uphill..
Intolerance :: Intolerance (n.) The quality of being intolerant; refusal to allow to others the enjoyment of their opinions, chosen modes of worship, and the like; want of patience and forbearance; illiberality; bigotry; as, intolerance shown toward a religious sect..
Aldermanry :: Aldermanry (n.) The district or ward of an alderman.
Awry :: Awry (adv. & a.) Turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or true direction, or position; out of the right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry..
Turnkey :: Turnkey (n.) A person who has charge of the keys of a prison, for opening and fastening the doors; a warder..
Stoop :: Stoop (v. i.) To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.
Patronize :: Patronize (v. t.) To assume the air of a patron, or of a superior and protector, toward; -- used in an unfavorable sense; as, to patronize one's equals..
Dextrally :: Dextrally (adv.) Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally..
Abbreviator :: Abbreviator (n.) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form..
Meritable :: Meritable (a.) Deserving of reward.
Sneak :: Sneak (imp. & p. p.) To act in a stealthy and cowardly manner; to behave with meanness and servility; to crouch.
Vestiary :: Vestiary (n.) A wardrobe; a robing room; a vestry.
Endwise :: Endwise (adv.) With the end forward.
Procedure :: Procedure (n.) The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct.
Sneaking :: Sneaking (a.) Marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and courage; underhand; mean; crouching.
Indignity :: Indignity (n.) Any action toward another which manifests contempt for him; an offense against personal dignity; unmerited contemptuous treatment; contumely; incivility or injury, accompanied with insult..
Externally :: Externally (adv.) In an external manner; outwardly; on the outside; in appearance; visibly.
Libration Point :: Libration point (n.) any one of five points in the plane of a system of two large astronomical bodies orbiting each other, as the Earth-moon system, where the gravitational pull of the two bodies on an object are approximately equal, and in opposite directions. A solid object moving in the same velocity and direction as such a libration point will remain in gravitational equilibrium with the two bodies of the system and not fall toward either body..
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