Ward-corn
(Ward"-corn`) n. [Ward + F. corne horn, L. cornu.] (O. Eng. Law) The duty of keeping
watch and ward (see the Note under Watch, n., 1) with a horn to be blown upon any occasion of surprise.
Burrill.
Wardcorps
(Ward"corps`) n. [Wars + corps.] Guardian; one set to watch over another. [Obs.] "Though
thou preyedest Argus . . . to be my wardcorps." Chaucer.
Warden
(Ward"en) n. [OE. wardein, OF. wardein, gardein, gardain, F. gardien. See Guardian, and
Ward guard.]
1. A keeper; a guardian; a watchman.
He called to the warden on the . . . battlements.
Sir. W. Scott. 2. An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison.
3. A head official; as, the warden of a college; specifically (Eccl.), a churchwarden.
4. [Properly, a keeping pear.] A large, hard pear, chiefly used for baking and roasting. [Obs.]
I would have had him roasted like a warden.
Beau. & Fl. Warden pie, a pie made of warden pears. [Obs.] Shak.
Wardenry
(Ward"en*ry Ward"en*ship), n. The office or jurisdiction of a warden.
Warder
(Ward"er) n.
1. One who wards or keeps; a keeper; a guard. "The warders of the gate." Dryden.
2. A truncheon or staff carried by a king or a commander in chief, and used in signaling his will.
When, lo! the king suddenly changed his mind,
Casts down his warder to arrest them there.
Daniel.
Wafting his warder thrice about his head,
He cast it up with his auspicious hand,
Which was the signal,
through the English spread,
This they should charge.
Drayton. Wardian
(Ward"i*an) a. Designating, or pertaining to, a kind of glass inclosure for keeping ferns, mosses,
etc., or for transporting growing plants from a distance; as, a Wardian case of plants; — so named from
the inventor, Nathaniel B. Ward, an Englishman.
Wardmote
(Ward"mote`) n. Anciently, a meeting of the inhabitants of a ward; also, a court formerly held
in each ward of London for trying defaults in matters relating to the watch, police, and the like. Brande
& C. "Wards and wardmotes." Piers Plowman.
Wardrobe
(Ward"robe`) n. [OE. warderobe, OF. warderobe, F. garderobe; of German origin. See Ward,
v. t., and Robe.]
1. A room or apartment where clothes are kept, or wearing apparel is stored; a portable closet for hanging
up clothes.
2. Wearing apparel, in general; articles of dress or personal decoration.
Flowers that their gay wardrobe wear.
Milton.
With a pair of saddlebags containing his wardrobe.
T. Hughes.
