warel (war)

t.; pret. and pp. wared, ppr. waring. [ME. waren, warien, ware, Ware the sonne in his ascencioun Ne fynde yow nat repleet of humours hote. Cf. Chaucer, Prol. to Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 136. But warre the fox, as while thai sitte on brode To sette in an Ilande were ful goode. Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. 8.), p. 23. ware2 (war), n . [ AS . * ware , pl. waru , wares (= D. waar , a ware, commodity, pl. waren , wares; ef. MD. waren = G. waare , pl. waaren = Icel. vara , pl. vörur , wares, = Dan. vare , pl. varer (cf. vare , care), = Sw. vara , pl. var or , ware, wares); prob. akin to AS. waru , guard, protection, care, custody, = G. wahre = Dan. vare = Sw. vara , care; warel , a ., and cf. worth2.] 1. Articles of manufacture or merchandise: now usually in the plural. No march aunt yit ne fette outlandish ware. Chaucer , Former Age, 1. 22. This is the ware wherein consists my wealth. Marlowe, Jew of Malta, i. 1. They shall not sell or buy any maner of wares , goods, or marchandises, secretely nor openly, by way of fraude, bar at, or deceite. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 210. You pretend buying of wares or selling of lands. Dekker and Webster , Northward Ho, v. 1. Who but a fool would have faith in a tradesman's ware or his word? Tennyson, Maud, vii. 2. A collective noun used generally in composition with the name of the material, or a term relating to the characters of the articles or the use to which they are put: as, china ware, tinuare, hardware, tableware. - Adams's ware, in ceram., a fine English pottery made at Tunstall, at the end of the eighteenth century, by William Adams, a pupil of Wedgwood. The pieces are often close imitations of the Wedgwood ware. - Agen ware. (a) An inferior kind of Roman pottery, softer and coarser than Samian ware: so called from Agen in the department of Lot-et-Garonne, France, where much of this ware was found with the furnaces. (b) A decorative pottery made in the seventeenth century, many of the pieces having Brongniart.- Apulian ware. The common wardman .. silver maces and in proce ions immediately precedes the Jewitt , Art Journal, 1881, p. 105. mayor.