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Guard
King James Dictionary
or GUARD, gard. L. verus wahren, to keep, to last, to hold out bewahren, to keep or preserve bewahren, to verify, to confirm Eng. ware, aware
1. To secure against injury, loss or attack to protect to defend to keep in safety. We guard a city by walls and forts. A harbor is guarded by ships, booms or batteries. Innocence should be guarded by prudence and piety. Let observation and experience guard us against temptations to vice.
2. To secure against objections or the attacks of malevolence.
Homer has guarded every circumstance with caution.
3. To accompany and protect to accompany for protection as, to guard a general on a journey to guard the baggage of an army.
4. To adorn with lists, laces or ornaments.
5. To gird to fasten by binding.
GUARD, To watch by way of caution or defense to be cautions to be in a state of defense or safety. Guard against mistakes, or against temptations.
GUARD, n. Eng. ward.
1. Defense preservation or security against injury, loss or attack.
2. That which secures against attack or injury that which defends. Modesty is the guard of innocence.
3. A man or body of men occupied in preserving a person or place from attack or injury he or they whose business is to defend, or to prevent attack or surprise. Kings have their guards to secure their persons. Joseph was sold to Potiphar, a captain of Pharaoh's guard.
4. A state of caution or vigilance or the act of observing what passes in order to prevent surprise or attack care attention watch heed. Be on your guard. Temerity puts a man off his guard.
5. That which secures against objections or censure caution of expression.
They have expressed themselves with as few guards and restrictions as I.
6. Part of the hilt of a sword, which protects the hand.
7. In fencing, a posture of defense.
8. An ornamental lace,hem or boarder.
Advanced guard,
Van guard, In military affairs, a body of troops, either horse or foot, that march before an army or division, to prevent surprise, or give notice of danger.
Rear guard, a body of troops that march in the rear of an army or division, for its protection.
Life guard, a body of select troops, whose duty is to defend the person of a prince or other officer.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Guard'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/g/guard.html.
