Ware

//wɛə// adj, name, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Aware. poetic

    "And in like wise as she said so they departed, that neither the king nor none of his council were ware of their departing."

  2. 2
    Wary; cautious. obsolete

    "He is ware inough; he is wilye, and circumſpect for ſtirring vp any ſedition."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A placename:; A place in England:; A hamlet in Uplyme parish, East Devon district, Devon, next to Lyme Regis in Dorset (OS grid ref SY3291) countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A placename:; A place in England:; A town and civil parish in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire (OS grid ref TL3614). countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A placename:; A place in England:; A hamlet in Ash parish, Dover district, Kent (OS grid ref TR2860). countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Union County, Illinois. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Sherman Township, Pocahontas County, Iowa. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Casey County, Kentucky. countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A town and census-designated place therein, in Hampshire County, Massachusetts. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Missouri. countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; Ellipsis of Ware County. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
  5. 10
    A surname. countable
Noun
  1. 1
    Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use. in-compounds, uncountable, usually

    "Astbury was the more successful and made frequent journeys to London, where he sold his ware and obtained further orders."

  2. 2
    Seaweed; drift seaweed; seawrack. UK, dialectal, obsolete

    "On many of the farms in East Lothian, from 100 to 120 Imperial acres are annually manured with sea-ware; and when I mention that 30 double-cart loads are spread on 1 acre, you may conceive the labour incurred in carting from 3000 to 3600 loads during a short season; for it is only in winter that the ware is cast ashore by storms,[…]"

  3. 3
    Spring, springtime. Northern-England, Scotland
  4. 4
    items for sale to the individual consumer wordnet
  5. 5
    See wares. in-plural, uncountable, usually
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  1. 6
    articles of the same kind or material; usually used in combination: ‘silverware’, ‘software’ wordnet
  2. 7
    Pottery or metal goods. uncountable, usually

    "damascene ware, tole ware"

  3. 8
    A style or genre of artifact. countable, usually
  4. 9
    Crockery. Ireland, uncountable, usually
Verb
  1. 1
    To be ware or mindful of something. dialectal, obsolete

    "1450, Palladius on Husbondrieː Ware the horn and heels lest they fling a flap to thee."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of wear (“to veer or bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern”) alt-of, alternative

    "The Ship wares bravely, steddy, steddy; she is before it. […] The Ship wares round, so right the Helm; hard up."

  3. 3
    Old eye dialect spelling of were.

    "Againſt this ther ware many objections made by the creditors, viz., that quoad the 9000 lƀ. a year contained in his contract of marriage, they ware præferable, being præferable and prior creditors, and ſo he was ſucceſſor titulo lucrativo poſt contractum debitum; and as to the 6000 lƀ. per annum added, 1^(o.) before that letter they had a jus quæſitum by the ſignitor; 2^(do.) They had rights præferable."

  4. 4
    simple past of wear form-of, obsolete, past
  5. 5
    spend extravagantly wordnet
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  1. 6
    To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary. obsolete

    "Ware thee."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English ware, from Old English waru, from Proto-West Germanic *waru, from Proto-Germanic *warō (“attention”) as in beware, in the sense of “an object of care, a valuable”, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to watch, keep guard”), whence also ward. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Were (“an item for exchange, barter, or sale; ware”), Dutch waar (“goods offered for sale or use; ware”), German Ware (“ware”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk vare (“ware”), Faroese vøra (“ware”), Icelandic and Swedish vara (“ware”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English ware, war, from Old English wær, from Proto-West Germanic *war, from Proto-Germanic *waraz.

Etymology 3

From Middle English waren (“to be ware, be on guard, be mindful, protect, guard”), from Old English warian, from Proto-West Germanic *warōn, from Proto-Germanic *warōną. Cognate with Saterland Frisian woarje (“to guard”).

Etymology 4

From Middle English waren (“to be ware, be on guard, be mindful, protect, guard”), from Old English warian, from Proto-West Germanic *warōn, from Proto-Germanic *warōną. Cognate with Saterland Frisian woarje (“to guard”).

Etymology 5

From Middle English wor (in sewor) from Old English wār (“seaweed”), ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *wīraz; compare wire. Cognate with Scots wair (“seaweed”), Dutch wier (“seaweed”), Middle Dutch wier (“seaweed”).

Etymology 6

From Middle English ware, from Old Norse vár (“spring”), from Proto-Germanic *wazrą. Cognate with Icelandic vor (“spring”), Swedish vår (“spring”), Danish vår (“spring”), Scots ware, wair (“spring”).

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