m. A guard of a hoard or treasure :-- Hordweard the dragon which watched over the treasure, Beo. Th. 4576; B. 2293: 4594; B. 2302: 5102; B. 2554: 5179; B. 2593. Hordweard hæleþa the Danish king, 2098; B. 1047: 3708; B. 1852. Hordwearda hryre [of the death of the first-born in Egypt], Cd. 144; Th. 179, 27; Exod. 35: [of the destruction of the Egyptians in the Red Sea], 169; Th. 210, 6; Exod. 511. Hordwearda gestreón the wealth of the princes of Israel, 174; Th. 220, 3; Dan. 65. hord-weard