WARD.

To defend; to protect. WARD. Tell him it was a hand that warded him from thousand dangers. WARD.

To fend off; to repel; to turn aside any thing mischievous that approaches. WARD. Now wards a falling blow, now strikes again. WARD. The pointed javlin warded off his rage. WARD. It instructs the scholar in the various methods of warding off the force of objections. WARD. WARD.