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1. wāre n.(2)

82 quotations in 6 senses
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Usu. coll. or pl. (a) merchandise offered for sale, wares; manufactured goods, commodities; also, sg. a commodity [quot. a1500 Aboue all thing]; gret wares, merchandise sold by large measures; sotil……

2. wāre n.(1)

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(a) Defense, protection; in prep. phrases: at the ware, on the defensive; in ware, ?in safekeeping; on ware, watchful, alert; (b) ?a lid or cover. …

3. wē̆r(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: were
70 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) An obstruction or a barrier placed across a stream, a sluice, dam, weir; a salmon leap [quot. ?a1475]; also, a pond, pool, or other body of water, in some cases perh. created by such an……

4. wāre n. plural

19 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) In cpds.: erthe ware [OE eorþ-waru], dwellers on earth, humanity; helle ware [OE hell-waru, -waran], inhabitants of hell, the eternally damned; heven ware [OE heofon-waru], dwellers in heaven [see……

5. wā̆r-lō̆nd n.

Additional spellings: warlond
7 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Land occupied by dependent peasantry and subject to royal geld, war land; (b) a tract of such land. …

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