guard ( u silent), garde

[O. Fr. guarde; Fr. garde.] [GUARD, v.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act or state of guarding or watching; a state or posture of caution or vigilance for the protection, defense, or security of any person or thing against injury, lo , or attack. 2. One who or that which guards, secures, protects, or watches over any person or thing for protection against injury, lo , or attack, or to secure the safety of or prevent escape. (1) A man or body of men engaged to defend a person or place against attack or injury, or prevent escape; a sentinel, a watch. "Slain by the garde ."-Goldyng: Justine fo. 88. (2) A man in charge of a railway train or mail coach. ( Eng .) (3) A quality or endowment which serves to keep off evil. "His greatne was guard IMG:content-0812.png:[blocks in formation] drawings. 2. Cricket : The position of the bat for most effect bally protecting the wicket. 3. Fencing and Boxing : The position of the arms or weapon in defense; a posture of defense. 4. Firearms : (1) A bow beneath a gun-stock protecting the trigger. (2) A safety-lock of a fowling-piece to prevent the accidental dropping of the hammer. (3) A nipple-shield to protect the little tube which receives the percu ion-cap. 5. Agric .: One of the teeth projecting forward from the cutter-bar of the harvester. The knife plays through the guards, and the knife sections make a shear cut against the soles of the guards lots. 6. Mach .: A light frame in which the nuts of bolts fit to prevent their becoming unscrewed by the vibration of the engine. 7. Eng . Mil .: The élite of the army, so called from its being their especial duty to guard the person of the sovereign. They are superior in rank to and better paid and clothed than the rest of the army. They consist of seven battalions of infantry, three constituting the Grenadier Guards, two the Cold stream Guards, and two the Scots Guards; and of three regiments of cavalry, named, respectively, the 1st and 2d Life Guards and the Royal Horse Guards (Blue). 8. Naut .: An extension laterally of the deck of a river steamboat, beyond the lines of the hull, making it overhang the water. It frequently comes flush with the outside of the paddle-box. 9. Zool.: The cylindrical fibrous sheath protecting the phragmacone (internal chambered shell) of a Belemnite. (1) To be or stand on one's guard : To be watchful or cautious. ""Tis best we stand upon our guard." Shakesp.: Tempest, ii. 1. IMG:content-0813.png:[blocks in formation] guard-a-ble ( u silent), a. [Eng. guard ; -able.] be either guardian in law or jure magi stratus, as That may or can be guarded, defended, or protected. the archbishop is of any diocese within his prov- *guard-age (pron. gard-ig), s. [Eng. guard; -age .] That which guards or protects one; a guard, A. As adjective : *1. Ord. Lang .: Guarding, watching; acting as a "Guardant before his feet a lion lay."-Southey. 2. Her .: [GARDANT.] *B. As subst.: A guard, a guardian. "My angry guardant stood alone." Shakesp.: Henry VI ., Pt . I., iv. 7. guard-ěd (u silent), *gard-ěd, pa . par . & a. [GUARD, v.] A. As pa . par.: (See the verb.) B. As adjective : 1. Protected, watched over, defended. "What! said he nought Of guarded pa ?" *2. Edged, trimmed, bound. 3. Circumspect, cautious, careful, wary; as, to be guarded in one's language. 4. Done, uttered, or managed with care or cir- cum spec tion; characterized by care. tentive, or heedle . (3) To mount guard : Mil.: To go on duty as a guard or sentinel. guard-boat, s. A boat employed to row round and about ships of war in a harbor to see that a proper look-out is kept; also a boat employed by the harbor authorities to see that the quarantine regulations are properly observed. "At night the launch was again moored with a top chain, and guard - boats stationed round both ships as before."Cook: Third Voyage , bk. v., ch. iv. guard-cells, s. pl. Bot.: Cells of crescent form, with thinner walls than those of the ordinary cells, from which, moreover, they are distinguished by containing chlorophyll. *guard-chamber, s. A guard-room. *guard-coat, s. A coat guarded or edged with lace, . "Coming down a tavern-stairs in his master's fine guard-coat."- Steele Spectator, No. 88. guard-finger, s. [GUARD, 8., II. 5.] IMG:content-0814.png:[blocks in formation] Naut . A ve el of war stationed in a port or harbor to act as a guard, to see that the harbor regulations are observed, and to receive seamen until they can be draughted off to their respective ships. "Our guard-ships were remote at sea."- Baker : Charles II . (an. 1667). IMG:content-0815.png:[blocks in formation] ince; or guardian by delegation, as he whom the archbishop or vicar-general doth for the time depute. ( Cowel. ) *(3) Guardian of the temporalities : A person to whom the temporal jurisdiction and the profits of a vacant see are committed. guardian-angel, s. 1. Lit. & Theol .: It is a pious belief (q. v.) but not an article of faith in the Latin and Greek Churches that to every individual of the human race there is a igned at birth an angel as guardian and protector. These duties are fulfilled by warding off temptations that may injure the person's spiritual condition, or by instilling into the soul wise counsels and holy warnings. Theologians deduce this belief immediately from Matt. xviii. 10, and the Fathers of the Church strongly inculcate it, and in the Lives of the Saints instances are given of the active interference of guardian-angels. The belief is shared by Anglican High Churchmen. Bishop Bull ( Sermons (ed. 1714), ii. 506) speaks of the belief that every Christian has a guardian-angel as "highly probable." Smith ( Dict . of Bible , s. v. Angel) says that the notion of special guardian. angels watching over individuals is consistent with the text in Matthew, though not nece arily to be deduced therefrom. He adds that the existence of the belief in the early Church is shown from Acts xii. 5. The Roman Church celebrates the Feast of Guardian Angels on October 2d. It is a double. [GUARDIAN-SPIRIT.] "Whence is taken the name of guardian -angels? From the following words of Holy Scripture: He shall give hıs angels charge over thee to guard thee in all thy ways (Ps. xci. 11)."-Schaff: Creed of the Greek and Latin Churches, p. 462. 2. Fig .: A protector, a defender. guardian-spirit, s . Compar. Relig.: Probably the idea of guardian spirits had its origin in a low form of Animism that each person is double, that when he dies his other self, whether remaining near at hand or gone far away, may return, and continue capable of injuring his enemies and aiding his friends. It finds expre ion in some form in all primitive relig ions, and in many which have reached a higher stage of development. The Australian native believes that when a warrior kills his first foe the