award, award, agarde

[In O. Fr. award, awart; Scotch warde = determination; Norm. Fr. garda = award or judgment.] [AWARD, v.] 1. Ord. Lang. & Law : The decision of arbitrators on a case submitted to them, or a verdict of the ordinary judges in a court of law. a punctilious fairne , such as might have been expected rather from a disinterested umpire pronouncing an award ..."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng., ch. ix. "If the award was legal, nobody was to blame; and, if the award was illegal, the blame lay, not with the Attorney-General, but with the Judges."- Ibid . , ch, xv. 2. Ord. Lang. Gen. A decision given after careful inquiry by one who is in a position to give an authoritative judgment. "With Giaffir is none but his only son, And the Nubian awaiting the sire's award." Byron: The Bride of Abydos, 1. 8.