WATFORD
First name WATFORD's origin is Other. WATFORD means "from the hurdle ford". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with WATFORD below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of watford.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with WATFORD and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming WATFORD
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES WATFORD AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH WATFORD (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 6 Letters (atford) - Names That Ends with atford:
stratfordRhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (tford) - Names That Ends with tford:
hartford hwitford whitfordRhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (ford) - Names That Ends with ford:
ashford pickford ransford rexford stanford aescford aisford berford biecaford biford blandford blanford burhford clyford guifford haraford harford heanford huxeford jefford linford lynford oxnaford picford raedford rangford redford reeford rockford rufford ryscford salford salhford stamford steathford stefford talford twiford watelford weiford wiellaford wilford wylingford telford welford warford twyford sanford stafford safford rushford ruford radford oxford huxford hanford gifford clifford byford burford bickford beresford alford hlaford bradford crawford ford gilford halford hrytherford langford lawford milford orford rumford rutherford tilford walford rayfordRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ord) - Names That Ends with ord:
alvord cord kord raynord rexlord word ordRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (rd) - Names That Ends with rd:
ballard cyneheard bard gotthard ceneward willard bayard cinnard kinnard reynardNAMES RHYMING WITH WATFORD (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 6 Letters (watfor) - Names That Begins with watfor:
Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (watfo) - Names That Begins with watfo:
Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (watf) - Names That Begins with watf:
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (wat) - Names That Begins with wat:
wat wathik watkins watson watt wattekinson wattesone wattik wattikinson wattkins watts wattsonRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (wa) - Names That Begins with wa:
wa'il wacfeld wachiru wachiwi wacian wacleah wacuman wada wadanhyll wade wadi wadley wadsworth waed waefreleah waelfwulf waer waerheall waeringawicum waescburne wafa' wafeeq wafeeqa wafid wafiq wafiqah wafiya wafiyy wafiyyah wagaye wagner wahanassatta wahchinksapa wahchintonka wahed wahibah wahid wahkan wain wainwright wait waite wajeeh wajeeha wajih wajihah wakanda wake wakefield wakeley wakeman waki wakil wakiza wakler walborga walborgd walbridge walbrydge walby walcot walcott walda waldburga waldemar waldemarr walden waldhramm waldhurga waldifrid waldmunt waldo waldon waldr waldrom waldron waleed waleis walfr walfred walfrid walid walidah walker wallace wallache waller wallisNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH WATFORD:
First Names which starts with 'wat' and ends with 'ord':
First Names which starts with 'wa' and ends with 'rd':
wardFirst Names which starts with 'w' and ends with 'd':
walmond warfield wayland weard wegland weifield weyland whitfield widad wilfred wilfrid wilfryd willhard willifrid willimod wilmod winefield winfield winfred winfrid winifred winifrid winswod winward winwood woodward wudoweard wyifrid wynfield wynfrid wynwardEnglish Words Rhyming WATFORD
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES WATFORD AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH WATFORD (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (atford) - English Words That Ends with atford:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (tford) - English Words That Ends with tford:
hartford | noun (n.) The Hartford grape, a variety of grape first raised at Hartford, Connecticut, from the Northern fox grape. Its large dark-colored berries ripen earlier than those of most other kinds. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (ford) - English Words That Ends with ford:
crawford | noun (n.) A Crawford peach; a well-known freestone peach, with yellow flesh, first raised by Mr. William Crawford, of New Jersey. |
hereford | noun (n.) One of a breed of cattle originating in Herefordshire, England. The Herefords are good working animals, and their beef-producing quality is excellent. |
oxford | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England. |
telford | adjective (a.) Designating, or pert. to, a road pavement having a surface of small stone rolled hard and smooth, distinguished from macadam road by its firm foundation of large stones with fragments of stone wedged tightly, in the interstices; as, telford pavement, road, etc. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ord) - English Words That Ends with ord:
abord | noun (n.) Manner of approaching or accosting; address. |
verb (v. t.) To approach; to accost. |
backsword | noun (n.) A sword with one sharp edge. |
noun (n.) In England, a stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used. Also called singlestick. |
bedcord | noun (n.) A cord or rope interwoven in a bedstead so as to support the bed. |
bord | noun (n.) A board; a table. |
noun (n.) The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures. | |
noun (n.) See Bourd. |
broadsword | noun (n.) A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. |
byword | noun (n.) A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency. |
noun (n.) The object of a contemptuous saying. |
catchword | noun (n.) Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue. |
noun (n.) The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing. | |
noun (n.) A word or phrase caught up and repeated for effect; as, the catchword of a political party, etc. |
chord | noun (n.) The string of a musical instrument. |
noun (n.) A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord. | |
noun (n.) A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve. | |
noun (n.) A cord. See Cord, n., 4. | |
noun (n.) The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension. | |
verb (v. t.) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune. | |
verb (v. i.) To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that. |
clarichord | noun (n.) A musical instrument, formerly in use, in form of a spinet; -- called also manichord and clavichord. |
clavichord | noun (n.) A keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte. See Clarichord. |
concord | noun (n.) A state of agreement; harmony; union. |
noun (n.) Agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league. | |
noun (n.) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case. | |
noun (n.) An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an acknowledgment that the land in question belonged to the complainant. See Fine. | |
noun (n.) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony. | |
noun (n.) A variety of American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters. | |
verb (v. i.) To agree; to act together. |
cord | noun (n.) A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together. |
noun (n.) A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line. | |
noun (n.) Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity. | |
noun (n.) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal. | |
noun (n.) See Chord. | |
verb (v. t.) To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment. | |
verb (v. t.) To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Core |
decachord | noun (n.) Alt. of Decachordon |
disaccord | noun (n.) Disagreement. |
verb (v. i.) To refuse to assent. |
discord | noun (n.) To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit. |
verb (v. i.) Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes. | |
verb (v. i.) Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord. |
disord | noun (n.) Disorder. |
fiord | noun (n.) A narrow inlet of the sea, penetrating between high banks or rocks, as on the coasts of Norway and Alaska. |
fjord | noun (n.) See Fiord. |
foreword | noun (n.) A preface. |
gord | noun (n.) An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice. |
harpsichord | noun (n.) A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano. |
heptachord | noun (n.) A system of seven sounds. |
noun (n.) A lyre with seven chords. | |
noun (n.) A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones. |
hexachord | noun (n.) A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones. |
koord | noun (n.) See Kurd. |
landlord | noun (n.) The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants. |
noun (n.) The master of an inn or of a lodging house. |
loord | noun (n.) A dull, stupid fellow; a drone. |
lord | noun (n.) A hump-backed person; -- so called sportively. |
noun (n.) One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor. | |
noun (n.) A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a boron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank. | |
noun (n.) A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc. | |
noun (n.) A husband. | |
noun (n.) One of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal land; as, the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor. | |
noun (n.) The Supreme Being; Jehovah. | |
noun (n.) The Savior; Jesus Christ. | |
verb (v. t.) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord. | |
verb (v. t.) To rule or preside over as a lord. | |
verb (v. i.) To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; -- sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb. |
misword | noun (n.) A word wrongly spoken; a cross word. |
verb (v. t.) To word wrongly; as, to misword a message, or a sentence. |
monochord | noun (n.) An instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which are movable, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of readily changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them. |
milord | noun (n.) Lit., my lord; hence (as used on the Continent), an English nobleman or gentleman. |
nayword | noun (n.) A byword; a proverb; also, a watchword. |
neurochord | adjective (a.) Alt. of Neurochordal |
neurocord | noun (n.) A cordlike organ composed of elastic fibers situated above the ventral nervous cord of annelids, like the earthworm. |
notochord | noun (n.) An elastic cartilagelike rod which is developed beneath the medullary groove in the vertebrate embryo, and constitutes the primitive axial skeleton around which the centra of the vertebrae and the posterior part of the base of the skull are developed; the chorda dorsalis. See Illust. of Ectoderm. |
octachord | noun (n.) An instrument of eight strings; a system of eight tones. |
octochord | noun (n.) See Octachord. |
ord | noun (n.) An edge or point; also, a beginning. |
overlord | noun (n.) One who is lord over another or others; a superior lord; a master. |
password | noun (n.) A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign. |
pentachord | noun (n.) An ancient instrument of music with five strings. |
noun (n.) An order or system of five sounds. |
polychord | noun (n.) A musical instrument of ten strings. |
noun (n.) An apparatus for coupling two octave notes, capable of being attached to a keyed instrument. | |
adjective (a.) Having many strings. |
rheochord | noun (n.) A metallic wire used for regulating the resistance of a circuit, or varying the strength of an electric current, by inserting a greater or less length of it in the circuit. |
seabord | noun (n. & a.) See Seaboard. |
smallsword | noun (n.) A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century. |
soord | noun (n.) Skin of bacon. |
sord | noun (n.) See Sward. |
sword | noun (n.) An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties. |
noun (n.) Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power. | |
noun (n.) Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension. | |
noun (n.) The military power of a country. | |
noun (n.) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended. |
tetrachord | noun (n.) A scale series of four sounds, of which the extremes, or first and last, constituted a fourth. These extremes were immutable; the two middle sounds were changeable. |
trichord | noun (n.) An instrument, as a lyre or harp, having three strings. |
urochord | noun (n.) The central axis or cord in the tail of larval ascidians and of certain adult tunicates. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH WATFORD (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (watfor) - Words That Begins with watfor:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (watfo) - Words That Begins with watfo:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (watf) - Words That Begins with watf:
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (wat) - Words That Begins with wat:
watch | noun (n.) An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. Dogwatch. |
noun (n.) That part, usually one half, of the officers and crew, who together attend to the working of a vessel for an allotted time, usually four hours. The watches are designated as the port watch, and the starboard watch. | |
verb (v. i.) The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or preventive vigilance; formerly, a watching or guarding by night. | |
verb (v. i.) One who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body of watchmen; a sentry; a guard. | |
verb (v. i.) The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept. | |
verb (v. i.) The period of the night during which a person does duty as a sentinel, or guard; the time from the placing of a sentinel till his relief; hence, a division of the night. | |
verb (v. i.) A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring. | |
verb (v. i.) To be awake; to be or continue without sleep; to wake; to keep vigil. | |
verb (v. i.) To be attentive or vigilant; to give heed; to be on the lookout; to keep guard; to act as sentinel. | |
verb (v. i.) To be expectant; to look with expectation; to wait; to seek opportunity. | |
verb (v. i.) To remain awake with any one as nurse or attendant; to attend on the sick during the night; as, to watch with a man in a fever. | |
verb (v. i.) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; -- said of a buoy. | |
verb (v. t.) To give heed to; to observe the actions or motions of, for any purpose; to keep in view; not to lose from sight and observation; as, to watch the progress of a bill in the legislature. | |
verb (v. t.) To tend; to guard; to have in keeping. |
watching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Watch |
watchdog | noun (n.) A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders. |
watcher | noun (n.) One who watches; one who sits up or continues; a diligent observer; specifically, one who attends upon the sick during the night. |
watches | noun (n. pl.) The leaves of Saracenia flava. See Trumpets. |
watchet | adjective (a.) Pale or light blue. |
watchful | adjective (a.) Full of watch; vigilant; attentive; careful to observe closely; observant; cautious; -- with of before the thing to be regulated or guarded; as, to be watchful of one's behavior; and with against before the thing to be avoided; as, to be watchful against the growth of vicious habits. |
watchhouse | noun (n.) A house in which a watch or guard is placed. |
noun (n.) A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup. |
watchmaker | noun (n.) One whose occupation is to make and repair watches. |
watchman | noun (n.) One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel. |
noun (n.) Specifically, one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night. |
watchtower | noun (n.) A tower in which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies, the approach of danger, or the like. |
watchword | noun (n.) A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password. |
noun (n.) A sentiment or motto; esp., one used as a rallying cry or a signal for action. |
water | noun (n.) The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc. |
noun (n.) A body of water, standing or flowing; a lake, river, or other collection of water. | |
noun (n.) Any liquid secretion, humor, or the like, resembling water; esp., the urine. | |
noun (n.) A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance; as, ammonia water. | |
noun (n.) The limpidity and luster of a precious stone, especially a diamond; as, a diamond of the first water, that is, perfectly pure and transparent. Hence, of the first water, that is, of the first excellence. | |
noun (n.) A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc. See Water, v. t., 3, Damask, v. t., and Damaskeen. | |
noun (n.) To add water to (anything), thereby extending the quantity or bulk while reducing the strength or quality; to extend; to dilute; to weaken. | |
verb (v. t.) An addition to the shares representing the capital of a stock company so that the aggregate par value of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or "diluted." | |
verb (v. t.) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate; as, to water land; to water flowers. | |
verb (v. t.) To supply with water for drink; to cause or allow to drink; as, to water cattle and horses. | |
verb (v. t.) To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines; as, to water silk. Cf. Water, n., 6. | |
verb (v. i.) To shed, secrete, or fill with, water or liquid matter; as, his eyes began to water. | |
verb (v. i.) To get or take in water; as, the ship put into port to water. |
watering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Water |
() a. & n. from Water, v. |
waterage | noun (n.) Money paid for transportation of goods, etc., by water. |
waterboard | noun (n.) A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water. |
waterbok | noun (n.) A water buck. |
waterer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, waters. |
waterfall | noun (n.) A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract. |
noun (n.) An arrangement of a woman's back hair over a cushion or frame in some resemblance to a waterfall. | |
noun (n.) A certain kind of neck scarf. |
waterflood | noun (n.) A flood of water; an inundation. |
waterfowl | noun (n.) Any bird that frequents the water, or lives about rivers, lakes, etc., or on or near the sea; an aquatic fowl; -- used also collectively. |
waterhorse | noun (n.) A pile of salted fish heaped up to drain. |
waterie | noun (n.) The pied wagtail; -- so called because it frequents ponds. |
wateriness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being watery; moisture; humidity. |
waterish | adjective (a.) Resembling water; thin; watery. |
adjective (a.) Somewhat watery; moist; as, waterish land. |
waterishness | noun (n.) The quality of being waterish. |
waterlander | noun (n.) Alt. of Waterlandian |
waterlandian | noun (n.) One of a body of Dutch Anabaptists who separated from the Mennonites in the sixteenth century; -- so called from a district in North Holland denominated Waterland. |
waterleaf | noun (n.) Any plant of the American genus Hydrophyllum, herbs having white or pale blue bell-shaped flowers. |
waterless | adjective (a.) Destitute of water; dry. |
waterman | noun (n.) A man who plies for hire on rivers, lakes, or canals, or in harbors, in distinction from a seaman who is engaged on the high seas; a man who manages fresh-water craft; a boatman; a ferryman. |
noun (n.) An attendant on cab stands, etc., who supplies water to the horses. | |
noun (n.) A water demon. |
watermark | noun (n.) A mark indicating the height to which water has risen, or at which it has stood; the usual limit of high or low water. |
noun (n.) A letter, device, or the like, wrought into paper during the process of manufacture. | |
noun (n.) See Water line, 2. |
watermelon | noun (n.) The very large ovoid or roundish fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Citrullus vulgaris) of many varieties; also, the plant itself. The fruit sometimes weighs many pounds; its pulp is usually pink in color, and full of a sweet watery juice. It is a native of tropical Africa, but is now cultivated in many countries. See Illust. of Melon. |
water pheasant | noun (n.) The goosander. |
noun (n.) The hooded merganser. | |
() The pintail. See Pintail, n., 1. |
waterpot | noun (n.) A vessel for holding or conveying water, or for sprinkling water on cloth, plants, etc. |
waterproof | noun (n.) A substance or preparation for rendering cloth, leather, etc., impervious to water. |
noun (n.) Cloth made waterproof, or any article made of such cloth, or of other waterproof material, as rubber; esp., an outer garment made of such material. | |
adjective (a.) Proof against penetration or permeation by water; impervious to water; as, a waterproof garment; a waterproof roof. | |
verb (v. t.) To render impervious to water, as cloth, leather, etc. |
waterproofing | noun (n.) The act or process of making waterproof. |
noun (n.) Same as Waterproof, n., 1. |
waterscape | noun (n.) A sea view; -- distinguished from landscape. |
watershed | noun (n.) The whole region or extent of country which contributes to the supply of a river or lake. |
noun (n.) The line of division between two adjacent rivers or lakes with respect to the flow of water by natural channels into them; the natural boundary of a basin. |
watershoot | noun (n.) A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree. |
noun (n.) That which serves to guard from falling water; a drip or dripstone. | |
noun (n.) A trough for discharging water. |
waterspout | noun (n.) A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land. |
watertath | noun (n.) A kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep. |
waterway | noun (n.) Heavy plank or timber extending fore and aft the whole length of a vessel's deck at the line of junction with the sides, forming a channel to the scuppers, which are cut through it. In iron vessels the waterway is variously constructed. |
waterweed | noun (n.) See Anacharis. |
waterwork | noun (n.) Painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls, -- formerly, frequently taking the place of tapestry. |
noun (n.) An hydraulic apparatus, or a system of works or fixtures, by which a supply of water is furnished for useful or ornamental purposes, including dams, sluices, pumps, aqueducts, distributing pipes, fountains, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural. |
waterworn | adjective (a.) Worn, smoothed, or polished by the action of water; as, waterworn stones. |
waterwort | noun (n.) Any plant of the natural order Elatineae, consisting of two genera (Elatine, and Bergia), mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste. |
watery | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water. |
adjective (a.) Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful. | |
adjective (a.) Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as, watery humors. | |
adjective (a.) Hence, abounding in thin, tasteless, or insipid fluid; tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless. |
watt | noun (n.) A unit of power or activity equal to 107 C.G.S. units of power, or to work done at the rate of one joule a second. An English horse power is approximately equal to 746 watts. |
wattmeter | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring power in watts, -- much used in measuring the energy of an electric current. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH WATFORD:
English Words which starts with 'wat' and ends with 'ord':
English Words which starts with 'wa' and ends with 'rd':
wallbird | noun (n.) The spotted flycatcher. |
ward | noun (n.) One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection. |
noun (n.) The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody. | |
noun (n.) A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard. | |
noun (n.) One who, or that which, is guarded. | |
noun (n.) A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery. | |
noun (n.) A division of a county. | |
noun (n.) A division, district, or quarter of a town or city. | |
noun (n.) A division of a forest. | |
noun (n.) A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward. | |
noun (n.) A projecting ridge of metal in the interior of a lock, to prevent the use of any key which has not a corresponding notch for passing it. | |
noun (n.) A notch or slit in a key corresponding to a ridge in the lock which it fits; a ward notch. | |
noun (n.) To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time. | |
noun (n.) To defend; to protect. | |
noun (n.) To defend by walls, fortifications, etc. | |
noun (n.) To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off. | |
adjective (a.) The act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship; specifically, a guarding during the day. See the Note under Watch, n., 1. | |
verb (v. i.) To be vigilant; to keep guard. | |
verb (v. i.) To act on the defensive with a weapon. |
washboard | noun (n.) A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them. |
noun (n.) A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard. | |
noun (n.) A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard. |
wasteboard | noun (n.) See Washboard, 3. |
wattlebird | noun (n.) Any one of several species of honey eaters belonging to Anthochaera and allied genera of the family Meliphagidae. These birds usually have a large and conspicuous wattle of naked skin hanging down below each ear. They are natives of Australia and adjacent islands. |
noun (n.) The Australian brush turkey. |
wayward | adjective (a.) Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful. |