Weard
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - weard
According to the Old English Dictionary:
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- weard
- f. I. ward, guard, watch:--Gefangen on hergiunge oþþe æt wearde utrum explorantem an in praelio raptus, Ors. 4, 11; Swt. 206, 5. Healdaþ wearde dæges and nihtes die ac nocte manebitis observantes custodias, Leexcubiis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 30, 12. Lux et tenebre ðe ðás werþeóda weardum healdaþ, Exon. Th. 192, 5; Az. 101. Wærda excubias, Hpt. Gl. 476, 29. I a. a watch, a body of men keeping watch:--Hí besetton his birgene mid wearde, Jud. Thw. p. 161, 12. II. guardianship, protection, keeping:--Heora feorh generede mihtig Metodes weard, Cd. Th. 230, 18; Dan. 235. Cristenum cyuinge gebyraþ ðæt hé sý on fæder stæle cristenre þeóde, and on ware and on wearde Cristes gespeliga, L. I. P. 2; Th. ii. 304, 23. [O. H. Ger. warta speculatio, cura, custodia, excubiae: Icel. vörðr; m. ward, watch, protection.] v. ǽg-, fird-, flód-, fore-, heáfod-, hors-, leód-, sǽ-weard; or-wearde. weard,-weard