WAR 
Guard made by a weapon in fencing. 
Come from thy ward. 
For I can here disarm thee with this stick. Shakspeare. 
Fortress; strong hold.—She dwells securely on the excel¬ 
lency of her honour. Now could I come to her with any 
detection in my hand, I could drive her from the ward of 
her purity, her reputation, and a thousand other her defences, 
which now are too strongly embattled against me. Sha/c- 
speare .— [warda, law Lat,] District of a town. 
Throughout the trembling city plac’d a guard, 
Dealing an equal share to every ward. Dryden. 
Custody; confinement.—That wretched creature being 
deprehended in that impiety, was held in ward. Hooker .— 
The part of a lock, which, corresponding to the proper key, 
hinders any other from opening it. 
In the key-hole turns 
The intricate wards, and every bolt and bar. Milton. 
One in the hands of a guardian. 
Thy Violante's heart was ever thine, 
Compell’d to wed, before she was my ward. Dryden. 
The state of a child under a guardian.-—I must attend his 
Majesty’s command, to whom I am now in ward, evermore 
in subjection. Shakspeare.- —Guardianship ; right over or¬ 
phans.—It is also inconvenient in Ireland, that the wards 
and marriages of gentlemen’s children should be in the dis¬ 
posal of any of those lords, Spenser. 
WARD’S CREEK, a river of the United States, in Vir¬ 
ginia, which runs into James river. Lat. 37. 10. N. long. 
77. 11. W. 
WARD’S CREEK, a river of the United States, in Mary¬ 
land, which runs into the Chesapeake. Lat. 38. 8. N. long. 
76. 52. W. 
WARDE, a small town of Denmark, near the west coast 
of Jutland, on a river also called Warde; 20 miles north- 
north-west of Ribe. 
WARDE, Point, a cape on the west coast of North 
America, at the upper end of Prince Ernest’s sound, and 
entrance of Bradfield canal. Lat. 56. 9. N. long. 228. 
10*. E. 
WA'RDEN, s. [ waerden , Dutch.] A keeper; a guardian; 
a head officer.—The warden of apothecaries’ hall. Garth. 
—Warden of the cinque ports.—A magistrate that has the 
j urisdiction of those havens in the east part of England, com¬ 
monly called the cinque ports, or five havens, who has there 
all that jurisdiction which the admiral of England has in 
laces not exempt. The reason why one magistrate should 
e assigned to these havens seems to be, because in respect of 
their situation, they formerly required a more vigilant care 
than other havens, being in greater danger of invasion by 
our enemies. Cowel.— A large pear.—Ox-cheek when hot, 
and wardens bak’d some cry. King. 
WARDEN, a parish of England, in Kent; 6 miles east 
of Queenborough. 
WARDEN, Chipping, a parish of England, in North¬ 
amptonshire ; 11 miles south-west-by-south of Daventry. 
WARDEN, Old, a parish of England, in Bedfordshire; 
3| miles west-by-south of Biggleswade. Population 492. 
WA'RDENSHIP, s. Office of a warden or guardian.— 
JIad this castle actually existed as a strong western garrison 
under the wardenship of our hero Ella, &c. Warton. 
WA'RDER, s. A keeper; a guard. 
Were be these warders, that they wait not here ? 
Open the gates. Shakspeare. 
A truncheon by which an officer of arms forbade fight. 
Then, then, when there was nothing could have staid 
My father from the breast of Bolingbroke, 
O, when the king did throw his warder down, 
His own life hung upon the staff he threw. Shakspeare. 
WARDHURST, or Wards, a hamlet of England, in 
the parish of Ivinghoe, county of Buckingham. 
WAR 563 
WARD1NGTON, or Wardenton, a hamlet of England, 
in Oxfordshire; 4* miles north-east-by-north of Banbury. 
Population 757. 
WARDLAW, a hill of Scotland, in Selkirkshire, in the 
parish of Etterick, elevated 1986 feet above the level of the 
sea. 
WARDLE, a township of England, in Lancashire; 3 
miles north-north-east of Rochdale. Population 4189. 
WARDLE, a township of England, county of Chester; 
5 miles north-west of Nantwich. 
WARDLEWORTH, a township of England, in the 
parish of Rochdale, Lancashire. Population 4345. 
WARDLEY, a parish of England, in Rutlandshire; 3 
miles west-south-west of Uppingham. 
WARDLOW, a township of England, in Derbyshire; 2 
miles east-by-south of Tideswell. 
WA'RDMOTE, s. [peapb and moc, or gemoE, Sax.; 
wardemotus, low Lat.] A meeting ; a court held in each 
ward or district in London for the direction of their affairs. 
WARDO, one of the Aland isles, in the gulf of Finland, 
belonging to Russia. 
WARDOE, an island on the west coast of Norway, in 
the bishopric of Drontheim, belonging to East Finmark. 
WARDOEHUUS, the chief town of a district of the 
same name, situated on an island in Norwegian Finmark, in 
the bishopric of Drontheim. Lat. 70. 22. 36. N. long. 31. 
7. 30. E. 
WARDON, or Wardrew, a watering village of En¬ 
gland, in the county of Northumberland, situated on the 
river Irthing. 
WA'RDROBE, s. \_garderobe, Fr.; garderoba, low 
Lat.] A room where clothes are kept. 
I will kill all his coats, 
I’ll murder all his wardrobe piece by piece 
Until I meet the king. Shakspeare. 
WARDSBOROUGH, a post township of the United 
States, in Windham county, Vermont; 20 miles north-east 
of Bennington. 
WARDSBRIDGE, a post village of the United States, in 
Orange county, New York. 
WARDSHIP, s. Guardianship.—By reason of the tenures 
in chief revived, the sums for respect of homage be increased, 
and the profits of wardships cannot but be much advanced. 
Bacon. —Pupillage; state of being under ward.—The houses 
sued out their livery, and redeemed themselves from the 
wardship of tumults. King Charles. 
WARD WELL, a post village of the United States, in 
Jefferson county. New York. 
WARE (Sir James), a descendant of an ancient English 
family in Yorkshire, was born at Dublin in 1594, and 
finished his education at Trinity College, Dublin. During 
the embroiled state of the country, sir James Ware em¬ 
ployed his time in the elucidation of historical antiquities, and 
published, at different periods, a variety of biographical and 
other works; and particularly his treatise “ De Scriptoribus 
Hiberniae,” lib. ii. commencing with the introduction of 
Christianity into Ireland, and continued to the close of the 
sixteenth century; and also his principal work,entitled “ De 
Hibernise et Antiquitatibus ejus,” and first published in Lon¬ 
don in 1654, of which an enlarged edition appeared in 1658, 
with an appendix ; “ Rerum Hibernicarum regnante Henrico 
VII. Annales.” His next publication was “ A Collection of 
the Works ascribed to St. Patrick,’’ 1656; and this was fol¬ 
lowed by “ Two Epistles of the Venerable Bede,” and some 
other ecclesiastical pieces. In 1662 appeared at Dublin, fol. 
“ Rerum Hibernicarum Annales, regnantibus Henrico VII., 
Henrico VIII., Edwardo VI., et Maria.” His last work, in 
1665, was his “ Complete History of Irish Bishops,” com¬ 
prehending his former narrativesof them, under the title of 
“ De Prsesulibus Hibernia Commentarius, a prima Gentis 
Hibernicse ad Fidem Christianam conversione ad nostra 
usque Tempora,” Dub. fol. He died in 1666. 
WARE, the preterite of wear, more frequently wore. —A 
certain man— ware no clothes. St. Luke. 
WARE, 
