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Ware   /wɛr/   Listen
noun
Ware  n.  (Bot.) Seaweed. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)
Ware goose (Zool.), the brant; so called because it feeds on ware, or seaweed. (Prov. Eng.)



Ware  n.  Articles of merchandise; the sum of articles of a particular kind or class; style or class of manufactures; especially, in the plural, goods; commodities; merchandise. "Retails his wares at wakes." "To chaffer with them and eke to sell them their ware." "It the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the Sabbath, or on the holy day." Note: Although originally and properly a collective noun, it admits of a plural form, when articles of merchandise of different kinds are meant. It is often used in composition; as in hardware, glassware, tinware, etc.



Ware  n.  The state of being ware or aware; heed. (Obs.)



verb
Ware  v. t.  (Naut.) To wear, or veer. See Wear.



Ware  v. t.  To make ware; to warn; to take heed of; to beware of; to guard against. "Ware that I say." "God... ware you for the sin of avarice." "Then ware a rising tempest on the main."



Ware  past  obs. of Wear. Wore.



adjective
Ware  adj.  A ware; taking notice; hence, wary; cautious; on one's guard. See Beware. (Obs.) "She was ware and knew it bet (better) than he." "Of whom be thou ware also." "He is ware enough; he is wily and circumspect for stirring up any sedition." "The only good that grows of passed fear Is to be wise, and ware of like again."






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"Ware" Quotes from Famous Books



... murder of a brother in Ireland, succeeded to the title, and married Margaret, a daughter of the King of Scotland. He was just starting for the Crusades, when he was killed by a fall from his horse, in a tournament held at Ware, (1241). Like the other Marshalls, he was a benefactor of the Temple, and, like all the four sons of the Protector, died without issue, in the reign of Henry III., the family becoming extinct with him. Matthew Paris declared that the race had been cursed by the Bishop of Fernes, from ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury

... as urgent," said the fellow. "I should summon my lord from the Queen's royal presence to do YOUR business, should I?—I were like to be thanked with a horse-whip. I marvel our old porter took not measure of such ware with his club, instead of giving them passage; but his brain is addled with getting his speech ...
— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott

... Ware, De Hibernia; a supplement to which contains annals of Irish History in the reign of Henry VII.; written in the ...
— England Under the Tudors • Arthur D. Innes

... ware is gaily spread, And now she weaves herself a bed, Where, hiding all but just her head, She watching lies For moths or gnats, entangled spread, ...
— Cottage Poems • Patrick Bronte

... led, whether she wished it or not, to the kitchen—that bright kitchen with its well-kept pots and pans, and its heavy delf-ware ranged on shelves, its great Dutch clock ticking loudly in the corner, and the clear fire burning merrily in the stove, which was flanked with blue and white tiles with a ...
— Penshurst Castle - In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney • Emma Marshall


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