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Ware   /wɛr/   Listen
noun
Ware  n.  (Bot.) Seaweed. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)
Ware goose (Zool.), the brant; so called because it feeds on ware, or seaweed. (Prov. Eng.)



Ware  n.  Articles of merchandise; the sum of articles of a particular kind or class; style or class of manufactures; especially, in the plural, goods; commodities; merchandise. "Retails his wares at wakes." "To chaffer with them and eke to sell them their ware." "It the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the Sabbath, or on the holy day." Note: Although originally and properly a collective noun, it admits of a plural form, when articles of merchandise of different kinds are meant. It is often used in composition; as in hardware, glassware, tinware, etc.



Ware  n.  The state of being ware or aware; heed. (Obs.)



verb
Ware  v. t.  (Naut.) To wear, or veer. See Wear.



Ware  v. t.  To make ware; to warn; to take heed of; to beware of; to guard against. "Ware that I say." "God... ware you for the sin of avarice." "Then ware a rising tempest on the main."



Ware  past  obs. of Wear. Wore.



adjective
Ware  adj.  A ware; taking notice; hence, wary; cautious; on one's guard. See Beware. (Obs.) "She was ware and knew it bet (better) than he." "Of whom be thou ware also." "He is ware enough; he is wily and circumspect for stirring up any sedition." "The only good that grows of passed fear Is to be wise, and ware of like again."






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"Ware" Quotes from Famous Books



... hidden meaning of Betty's comfortable declaration. A long table, made of boards torn from the side of an outbuilding, was stretched through the middle of the largest apartment, or the barroom, and on it was a very scanty display of crockery ware. The steams of cookery arose from an adjoining kitchen, but the principal attraction was in a demijohn of fair proportions, which had been ostentatiously placed on high by Betty as the object most worthy of notice. Lawton soon learned that it was teeming ...
— The Spy • James Fenimore Cooper

... the company, it was the emporium through which the whole commerce of the East passed to and from Europe. The Dutch possessions of Ceylon, the Cape of Good Hope, and the Moluccas depended for their supplies on Java. Not only were the European imports, iron, broadcloth, glass-ware, velvets, wines, gold lace, furniture, and saddlery destined for these settlements received here in the first instance, but similar imports intended for China, Cochin, Japan, and the Malay islands were also reshipped from this port into the native boats which conveyed them to those ...
— A Visit to Java - With an Account of the Founding of Singapore • W. Basil Worsfold

... rich Druse, who is as avaricious as the latter is generous; he has however built a Khan here for the accommodation of travellers. There is a fine spring in the village; the inhabitants manufacture coarse earthen ware [Arabic], with ...
— Travels in Syria and the Holy Land • John Burckhardt

... unto deaths doore yplast, And thred-bare cote, and cobled shoes he ware, 245 Ne scarse good morsell all his life did tast, But both from backe and belly still did spare, To fill his bags, and richesse to compare; Yet chylde ne kinsman living had he none To leave them to; but thorough daily care 250 ...
— Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I • Edmund Spenser

... silver right enough. I ought to know, havin' one of my own and a heavier by ounces. No, I don't use it except on special occasions: because you can't make so good tea in silver as in china ware; and clome is better again. But though you lock it away, a silver tea-pot is a thing to be conscious of. I don't hold," Mrs Polsue fell back on her favourite formula, "with folks puttin' all their best ...
— Nicky-Nan, Reservist • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)


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