guard 
Won't you be i.n >fur Guard against those who wouM 
betray you 7 Ster.le, Conscious Lovers, ii. 1. 
To mount guard. See mount?. Wire guard, a frame. 
work of wire netting to be placed in front of a fireplace as 
a protection against tire; a fire-guard. Yeoman of the 
guard. See yeoman. 
guardable (gar'da-bl), a. [< guard + -able.] 
( 'apable of being guarded or protected, 
guardaget (gar'daj), . [< guard + -</'.] 
Wardship. 
A maid so tender, fair, and happy . . . 
Run from her guardagc to the sooty bosom 
Of such a thing as thou. Shak., Othello, i. '. 
guardant (gar'dant), a. and n. [< OF. gardant, 
ppr. of garder, guard: see guard, r.] I. a. 1. 
Acting as a guard or guardian ; protecting. 
For young Askanius he his left hand spares, 
In his right hand his guardant sword he shakes. 
Great Britaines Troye (1609). 
Guardant before his feet a lion lay. Southey. 
My rivers flow beyond, with guardant ranks 
Of silver-liveried poplars on their banks. 
k. U. Stoddard, Castle in the Air. 
2. Iii tier. See gardant. 
Il.i n. A guard or guardian. 
My angry guardant stood alone, 
Tend'ring my ruin, and assail'd of none. 
Shak., IHen. VI., IT. 7. 
guard-boat (gard'bot), n. A boat employed in 
guarding or watching, as one that is rowed 
about at night among ships of war at anchor 
to see that a good lookout is kept, or in time 
of war to prevent surprise, or one used for the 
enforcement of quarantine regulations. 
At night the launch waa again moored with a top-chain ; 
and guard-boat* stationed round both ships as before. 
Cook, Third Voyage, v. 4. 
guard-book (giird'buk), n. In bookbinding, a 
book with guards. See guard, 5 (h). 
guard-brush (gai-d'brush), n. A metallic brush 
for making contact with the track or other con- 
ductor on an electric railway, by means of 
which the current is conveyed to the motor. 
The current is conveyed from the guard-brushes and the 
wheels to the motor, and through the other rail to the 
ground (on an electric railway]. Science, XII. 302. 
guard-cell (gard'sel), >i. In bot., one of the 
two cells which inclose the opening of a stoma 
in phanerogams and ferns, distinguished by a 
peculiar mode of division and growth, and from 
adjacent epidermal cells by containing ehlo- 
rophyl and starch. Also guardian-cell. 
The opening left between the applied concave faces is 
a stoma, and the two cells are the guard-cell*. 
Huxley and Martin, Elementary Biology, p. 448. 
guard-chain (gard'chan), . A chain used to 
secure something, especially a part of the dress 
and personal equipment, as, in the middle ages, 
the hilt of the sword to the breastplate or other 
part of the body-armor, or at the present day 
a watch, brooch, or bracelet. See cut under belt. 
guard-chamber (gard'cham'ber), H. A guard- 
room. 
And it was so, when the king went into the house of the 
Lord, that the guard bare them, and brought them back 
into the guard chamber. 1 Ki. xiv. 28. 
guard-duty (giird'du"ti), H. Milit., the duty 
performed by a guard or sentinel. 
guarded (giir'ded), p. a. 1. Protected ; defend- 
ed. Specifically (a) In entom., said of pupae which have 
an imperfect cocoon or case open at the end, as those of the 
Phryganid(K and of certain moths. \b) In card-playing, 
said of the next to the highest card out, when a lower card 
is in the same hand, BO that the player can throw the low 
card when the highest is played, and take a trick with the 
other. 
2. Cautious; circumspect. 
Christian rose from her seat : " Miss Oascoigne, seeing 
that I am here at the head of my husband's table, I must 
request you to be a little more guarded in your conversa- 
tion." Mrs, Craik, Christian's Mistake, vi. 
3. In her., trimmed or lined, as with a fur: 
said of a mantle or cap of maintenance when 
the edge is turned up or thrown back so as to 
show the lining. 
guardedly (gar'ded-li), adv. In a guarded or 
cautious manner. 
It obliquely pointed out the true object of their resent- 
ment ; but this BO guardedly that it was impossible to 
make any serious charge against the author. 
Sheridan, Swift, p. 210. 
She to her swain thus guardedly replied. 
Crabbe, Works, VIII. 91. 
guardedness (gar'ded-nes), n. The state or 
quality of being guarded; caution; circumspec- 
tion. 
guardent, n. Same as guardian. 
guardenaget, . Same as guardianage. 
guarder (gar'der), . One who or that which 
guards. 
2646 
The English men were sent for to be the guardert of the 
persons of the Emperours of Constantinople. 
llakluyt's Voyages, II. 17. 
guard-fish (giird'fish), . [A var. of garfish, 
simulating i/itiird, as if in allusion to the ensi- 
form jaws.] The garfish. [Prov. Eng.] 
guard-flag (Kitrd'flag), . In a squadron, a flag 
indicating (he ship whose turn it is to perform 
the duty of a guard-ship. See also guidr-fliig. 
guardful(gard'ful),rt. [< guard + -//.] Wary; 
cautious. [Rare.] 
I meanwhile 
Watch with a guardful eye these murderous motions. 
A. Hill. 
guardfully (gard'ful-i),<irfr. Cautiously; care- 
fully. [Rare.] 
O thou that all things seeat, 
Fautour of Chrysa, whose fair hand doth guardjully dis- 
pose 
Celestial Cilia, governing in all power Tenedos. 
Chapman, Iliad, i. 431. 
guard-house (giird'hous), . 1. A building in 
which a military guard is stationed for the care 
of prisoners confined in it and for the relief of 
sentries. 2. A place for the temporary deten- 
tion of civil prisoners under guard, 
guardian (gar'dian), n. [Early mod. E. also 
guarden (dial, guardeen); < OF. gardien, earlier 
gardian, guardain, gardein, in the oldest form 
"wardein (> ME. icardein, E. warden) (= Sp. 
guardian = Pg. guardiSo = It. guardiano; 
ML. guardianuH), a guardian, keeper, < garder, 
guard, keep: see guard, v. Ct. warden, the 
older form.] 1. A warden; one who guards, 
preserves, or secures ; one to whom some per- 
son or thing is committed for preservation from 
injury; one who has the charge or custody of 
a person or thing. 
And thereat Junona Banctuair 
In the void porches Phenix, Ullages eke, 
Sterne guardens stood, watching of the spoile. 
Surrey, ^Eneid, ii. 
Readers in sciences are indeed the guardians of the 
stores and provisions of sciences. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 111. 
Angels ascending and descending, bands 
Of guardiant bright. Milton, P. I ... Hi. 511. 
Specifically 2. In law, one to whom the law 
intrusts the care of the person or property, or 
both, of another. The word is used chiefly in refer- 
ence to the control of infants ; one charged with similar 
care of an adult idiot or lunatic is now specifically called 
a committee, though by the civil law termed guardian. A 
guardian of the property is a trustee, his trust extending 
to all the property the infant has or may acquire, or all 
that he or shehas or may acquire within the Jurisdiction. 
I am sorry for her, as I have just cause, being her uncle 
and her guardian. Shak., Much Ado, ii. 3. 
Whatever parents, guardians, schools, intend. 
Cowper, Progress of Error, 1. 424. 
Guardians at common law were: (a) Guardian in chivalry, 
a lord who, when a tenant by knight-service died and left 
an infant heir to inherit the tenure, was entitled by the 
feudal law to take the profits of the estate, and make what 
he could by negotiating a marriage for the heir, under cer- 
tain restrictions, being bound to maintain the ward mean- 
while, (b) Guardian in nocage. See nocage. (c) Guardian 
bi/ nature, the father, with respect to his guardianship of 
the person of his heir apparent or heiress presumptive. 
This guardianship of the person was allowed as an excep- 
tion to or reservation out of the powers of a guardian in 
chivalry, so long aa the father of the ward lived. (See 
below.) (d) Guardian for nurture, in English law, the 
father, and after his death the mother, aa having guardian- 
ship of the persons of all their children up to the age 
of fourteen years. (>) Guardian by election, a guardian 
chosen by an infant who would otherwise have none. The 
choice is not effectual except as it procures appointment 
by a competent court (/) Guardian by custom, an officer 
or municipality, or the appointee of a lord of the manor, 
having by local custom, as in London and Kent, England, 
a legal right to exercise a guardianship. The practical dis- 
tinctions now are : Judicially appointed guardian, a guar- 
dian designated by a court, the judicial power in this re- 
spect being now generally regulated by statute ; statutory 
guardian, a guardian appointed by a parent by deed or 
will, under authority of a statute ; testamentary guardian, 
a guardian appointed by a parent by will, pursuant to the 
statute ; guardian by nature, the father, or, if he be dead, 
the mother, exercising the common-law custody of the 
person, and, by statute, in some jurisdictions, the common- 
law power of a guardian in socage in respect to hind, if no 
guardian is expressly appointed. 
3. The superior of a Franciscan convent. He is 
elected for three years, and cannot hold the guardianship 
of the same convent twice, though he may be chosen head 
of another convent Cath. Diet. Feast Of tie Guar- 
dian Angels, in the Roman Catholic calendar, October 2d. 
Guardian ad litem, a person appointed to take charge 
of the interests of an infant or other person suffering from 
legal incapacity, in a litigation, and to prosecute or defend 
the action or proceeding on behalf of the latter. Guar- 
dian angel, an angel who watches over and protects a 
particular person. 
A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, 
Doubling his pleasures and his cares dividing. 
Rogers, Human Life. 
Guardian of the spiritualities, the person to whom the 
spiritual jurisdiction of a diocese is intrusted during the 
vacancy of the see. Guardian of the temporalities, 
the person to whom the temporal jurisdiction and the prof 
guard-ship 
its of a vacant see are committed. Guardians Of the 
poor, in England and Ireland, persons elected annually by 
the rate-payers of eaeb parish or union for the management 
of the poor-law system of such parish or union, 
guardianaget (giir'dian-nj), >i. [Also guardcn- 
(iijc ; < guardian + -utjc.\ Guardianship. 
During the time of my nonage (whiles I was under his 
ouonitWMM) he bare himself not only valiant, but also 
true and faithfull unto me. Holland, tr. of Livy, p. 1093. 
guardiancet (giir'dians), . [For "gutirdfiiu-i: 
< gHardaii(t) + -ce.] Guardianship; defense. 
I got it nobly in the king's defence, 
And in the yuardiance of my faire queene's right. 
Chapman, Humorous Day's Mirth, fol. S. 
guardian-cell (gar'dian-sel), . Same as gm'i-ii- 
cell. 
guardianert (gar'dian-er), m. [< guardian + 
-er 1 .] A guardian. 
I marl'd my guardianer does not seek a wife for me. 
Middleton, Women Beware Women, i. 2. 
guardianesst (gar'dian-es), H. [< guardian + 
-c**.] A female guardian. 
I've yet a niece to wed, over whose steps 
1 have plac'd a trusty watchful yuardianess. 
Beau, and Ft., Wit at .Several Weapons, i. 1. 
guardianize (gar'dian-Iz), v. i.; pret. and pp. 
guardianized, ppr. guardianiziiig. [< guardian 
+ -ize.] To act the part of a guardian. Imp. 
Diet. [Rare.] 
guardianless (giir'dian-les), a. [< guardian + 
-/ess.] Destitute of a guardian ; unprotected. 
But first, I'll try to find out this guardianlcss graceleaa 
villian. Wyckerley, Plain Dealer, iii. 1. 
A lady, guardianless, 
Left to the push of all allurement Mariton. 
guardianship (giir'dian-ship), n. [.< guardian 
+ -sftipj The office of a guardian ; protection ; 
care; watch. 
The law and custome of the realme of England an, r- 
reth that euerie heire being in the gai'dianship of anie 
lord, when he is growne to be one and twentie yeares of 
age, oughte presently to inioy the inheritance left him by 
his father. Holinshed, Chron., Rich. II., an. 1389. 
The statute, for example, establishes the fees for a grant 
of guardianship over minors. 
D. Webster, Speech, March 10, 1818. 
guard-irons (gardVernz), n. pi. Curved bars 
of iron placed over the ornamental figures on 
a ship's nead or quarter, to defend them from 
injury. 
guardless (gard'les), a. [< guard + -less.} 
Having no guard or defense. 
No heavy dreeme doth vexe him when he sleeps ; 
"A guiltless mind the guardlesse cottage keeps." 
Stirling, Darius (cho. V.)L 
guard-mounting (gard'moun'ting), H. Milit., 
the act or ceremony of stationing a guard. It 
includes all the details of the placing of sen- 
tinels, etc. 
guard-plate (gard'plat), . In a blast- or cu- 
pola-furnace, a plate which closes the opening 
in front through which the molten metal is 
drawn off, and the slags, etc., are raked out. 
The tapping-hole is in the middle of this plate. 
guard-rail (gard'ral), n. On a railway-track, 
an additional rail placed beside the rail in ser- 
vice, either with the object of receiving the 
wheel in case it should leave the track or of 
preventing the wheel from leaving the track. 
The trestle had only the ordinary short ties, sleepers 
and uo guard-rails. The Engineer, LXV. 295. 
guard-rein, . See garde-reine. 
guard-ring (gard'ring), n. A plain ring worn 
to prevent a valuable one from slipping from 
the finger; a keeper. 
guard-room (gard'rom), . 1. A room for the 
accommodation of guards. 
They at length arrived at the palace-gate, and after wait- 
ing half an hour, were admitted into the guard-room. 
Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, cxvii. 
2. A room where military delinquents are con- 
fined. 
guardship (gard'ship), H. [< guard + -s/'y).] 
Care; protection. 
How blest am I. by such a man led ! 
Under whose wise and careful yuardship 
I now despise fatigue and hardship. Surift. 
guard-ship (gard'ship), n. [< guard + ship.] 
1. A vessel of war appointed to protect a har- 
bor or to superintend marine affairs in it, and 
sometimes to receive naval offenders and sea- 
men not assigned to duty on other vessels. 
While our guard-ships were remote at sea, they [the 
Hollanders) arrived at the mouth of the river Medway. 
Baker, Charles II., an. 1667. 
One island, indeed, La Croma, lies like a guard-ship an- 
chored in front of the city. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 223. 
2. One of the vessels of a squadron having the 
duty, among others, of boarding any arriving 
vessels. 
