*ards*

{ } adv. Toward the air; upward. [ R. ] Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. [ Back, adv. + -ward. ] 1. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. On the back, or with the back downward. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou wilt fall backward. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Toward, or in, past time or events; ago. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some reigns backward. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. By way of reflection; reflexively. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin. [ 1913 Webster ]

The work went backward. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards. [ 1913 Webster ]

We might have . . . beat them backward home. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being a bard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. billiard billiards, OF. billart staff, cue form playing, fr. bille log. See Billet a stick. ] A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the boarding that surrounds an ice hockey rink. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the stage; as, to walk the boards, i.e. to act on stage. [ PJC ]

3. board examinations (in a profession, as in medicine); -- an informal contraction; as, to take the boards; he flunked the boards. [ PJC ]

n. a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. pl. [ Corrupted fr. colewort. ] 1. Young cabbage, used as “greens”; esp. the leaves of a kind of kale (Brassica oleracea acephala) cultivated for that purpose, the collard or colewort. [ Colloq. Southern U. S. ]
Syn. -- collard greens. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. A kind of kale (Brassica oleracea acephala) cultivated in the southern United States as a vegetable. [ PJC ]

n. Cowardice. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. [ AS. ad&unr_;nweard. See Down, adv., and -ward. ] 1. From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards. “Looking downwards.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their heads they downward bent. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin. [ 1913 Webster ]

And downward fell into a groveling swine. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line. [ 1913 Webster ]

A ring the county wears,
That downward hath descended in his house,
From son to son, some four or five descents. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. Toward the earth; -- opposed to heavenward or skyward. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. Toward the east; in the direction of east from some point or place; as, New Haven lies eastward from New York. [ 1913 Webster ]

pl. Infantry soldiers belonging to select regiments called the Guards. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , adv. [ AS. forweard, foreweard; for, fore + -weardes; akin to G. vorwärts. The s is properly a genitive ending. See For, Fore, and -ward, -wards. ] Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to backward. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Same as Forward. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } prep. [ AS. framweard about to depart. Cf. Froward ] A way from; -- the contrary of toward. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Towards or fromwards the zenith. Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Named after the introducer, Thomas Goulard, a French surgeon. ] (Med.) An aqueous solution of the subacetate of lead, used as a lotion in cases of inflammation. Goulard's cerate is a cerate containing this extract. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. A body of picked troops; as, “The Household Guards.” [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Care; protection. [ Obs. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Guardsmen 1. One who guards; a guard. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A member, either officer or private, of any military body called Guards. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ OE. herdes, AS. heordan; akin to G. hede. ] The refuse or coarse part of flax; tow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which is hard to bear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Firmly twisted in spinning. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. [ AS. hāmweard. ] Toward home; in the direction of one's house, town, or country. [ 1913 Webster ]

Homeward bound, bound for home; going homeward; as, the homeward bound fleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Mil.) A body of cavalry so called; esp., a British regiment, called the Royal Horse Guards, which furnishes guards of state for the sovereign. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Horse Guards, a name given to the former headquarters of the commander in chief of the British army, at Whitehall in London. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The internal organs of an animal collectively especially those in the abdominal cavity.
Syn. -- viscera. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } adv. [ AS. inweard. The ending -s is prop. a genitive ending. See Inward, a., -wards. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Into, or toward, the mind or thoughts; inwardly; as, to turn the attention inward. [ 1913 Webster ]

So much the rather, thou Celestial Light,
Shine inward. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. See Inward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. jarde, jardon. ] (Far.) A callous tumor on the leg of a horse, below the hock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Niggardliness. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , adv. Toward the north, or toward a point nearer to the north than to the east or west point. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ See -wards. ] Onward. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. See Outward, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. [ AS. ūteweard. See Out, and -ward, -wards. ] From the interior part; in a direction from the interior toward the exterior; out; to the outside; beyond; off; away; as, a ship bound outward. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wrong side may be turned outward. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Light falling on them is not reflected outwards. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Outward bound, bound in an outward direction or to foreign parts; -- said especially of vessels, and opposed to homeward bound. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Numismatics) Two or more metals coined without any attempt by the government to regulate their values. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adv. Toward a pole of the earth. “The regions further polewards.” Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. Toward the south, or toward a point nearer the south than the east or west point; as, to go southward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a steward. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } prep.[ AS. &unr_; impending, imminent, future, toward, &unr_; towards. See To, and -ward, wards. ] 1. In the direction of; to. [ 1913 Webster ]

He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

The waves make towards the pebbled shore. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. [ 1913 Webster ]

His eye shall be evil toward his brother. Deut. xxviii. 54. [ 1913 Webster ]

Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offense toward God, and toward men. Acts xxiv. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Tending to; in the direction of; in behalf of. [ 1913 Webster ]

This was the first alarm England received towards any trouble. Clarendom. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Near; about; approaching to. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am toward nine years older since I left you. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. Near; at hand; in state of preparation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Do you hear sught, sir, of a battle toward ? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

We have a trifling foolish banquet Towards. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. & adv. See Toward. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. Toward a town. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. [ AS. upweardes. See Up-, and -wards. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In the upper parts; above. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man,
And down ward fish. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over. [ 1913 Webster ]

From twenty years old and upward. Num. i. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

Upward of, or
Upwards of, more than; above. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have been your wife in this obedience
Upward of twenty years. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ . [ AS. -weard, -weardes; akin to OS. & OFries. -ward. OHG. -wert, G. -wärts, Icel. -verðr, Goth. -vaírþs, L. vertere to turn, versus toward, and E. worth to become. √143. See Worth. v. i., and cf. Verse. Adverbs ending in -wards (AS. -weardes) and some other adverbs, such as besides, betimes, since (OE. sithens). etc., were originally genitive forms used adverbially. ] Suffixes denoting course or direction to; motion or tendency toward; as in backward, or backwards; toward, or towards, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

See -ward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The office of a ward or keeper; care and protection of a ward; guardianship; right of guardianship. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wardship is incident to tenure in socage. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of begin under a guardian; pupilage. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was the wisest act . . . in my wardship. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Wardsmen A man who keeps ward; a guard. [ R. ] Sydney Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. [ AS. westweard. See West, and -ward. ] Toward the west; as, to ride or sail westward. [ 1913 Webster ]

Westward the course of empire takes its way. Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]