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1. (poetic) Aware.Examples: "And in like wise as she said so they departed, that neither the king nor none of his council were ware of their departing."; "But here thou canst not handle aught, neither make the folk ware of thee, not though thou shout thy throat hoarse. For thou and I walk here impalpable and invisible, as it were two dreams walking."poetic

1. (obsolete or dialectal) To be ware or mindful of something.Examples: "1450, Palladius on Husbondrieː Ware the horn and heels lest they fling a flap to thee."; "c. 1450, Who Ðat Liste Lokeː Ware avoutrer untrue; Such love was never good ne may be true."; "c. 1470, The Macro Playsː ‘Ware that!’ quoth Ser Wyly."dialectalobsolete

2. (obsolete) To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.Examples: "Ware thee."obsolete

1. (obsolete) Wary; cautious.Examples: "He is ware inough; he is wilye, and circumſpect for ſtirring vp any ſedition."; "Of whom be thou ware also."; "Be he quite wary, as wood is ware of fire, as thigh of bramble or of thistle, he, who may be thinking to mislead these beeves or to mispossess this cattle."obsolete

1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) Seaweed; drift seaweed; seawrack.Examples: "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,[…]"; "The said farm, having been possessed […] in the deed of 12th July 1794, with the privilege of taking ware from the sea-shore for the use of the farm, and having been let by them to a tenant in 1804, with "liberty of the droven sea-ware, along with the other tenants of the Elie barony, for manuring the farm," […]"; "Each ware-strand, or beach where drift-weed comes to land, is set apart for a certain number of tenants on the estate to which it belongs, and each 'brook of ware' as it comes ashore is divided among these tenants, usually in proportion to their rents."UKdialectalobsolete

1. (nautical) Alternative form of wear (“to veer or bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern”)Examples: "The Ship wares bravely, steddy, steddy; she is before it. […] The Ship wares round, so right the Helm; hard up."; "[…] [page 67:] He then stood off to windward, and opening his lower parts, wore round under her stern, […] [pages 365-372:] I have previously to observe, that the first part of this question implies that two distinct significations appertain to the signal for waring a fleet in the manner proposed; viz . to ware the sternmost first; and secondly, to ware the sternmost and leewardmost first. […] If to form on the opposite tack, the division L D ware together, and keep away […] [page xxi, glossary:] To Ware (or Veer), is to do the reverse [of Turning in or out or up, tacking to reach an object to windward]; or to turn round by going from the wind and hauling to it gradually; or, as it is termed, coming to the wind upon the other tack. To veer is more properly applied to paying-out or giving out more cable, or hawser; […]"; "... to ware to the eastward."alt-ofalternative