n. 病房, 守卫, 保卫, 保护, 监护, 牢房, 行政区, 锁孔内的榫舌

vt. 使入病房, 守护, 保卫

[医] 病室, 病房

Ward \Ward\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Warded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Warding}.] [OE. wardien, AS. weardian to keep, protect; akin
to OS. ward?n to watch, take care, OFries. wardia, OHG.
wart?n, G. warten to wait, wait on, attend to, Icel. var?a to
guarantee defend, Sw. v[*a]rda to guard, to watch; cf. OF.
warder, of German origin. See {Ward}, n., and cf. {Award},
{Guard}, {Reward}.]
1. To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a
specific sense, to guard during the day time.

Whose gates he found fast shut, no living wight
To ward the same. --Spenser.

2. To defend; to protect.

Tell him it was a hand that warded him
From thousand dangers. --Shak.

3. To defend by walls, fortifications, etc. [Obs.]

4. To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything
mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.

Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again.
--Daniel.

The pointed javelin warded off his rage. --Addison.

It instructs the scholar in the various methods of
warding off the force of objections. --I. Watts.


Ward \Ward\, n. [AS. weard, fem., guard, weard, masc., keeper,
guard; akin to OS. ward a watcher, warden, G. wart, OHG.
wart, Icel. v["o]r[eth]r a warden, a watch, Goth. -wards in
da['u]rawards a doorkeeper, and E. wary; cf. OF. warde guard,
from the German. See {Ware}, a., {Wary}, and cf. {Guard},
{Wraith}.]
1. The act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship;
specifically, a guarding during the day. See the Note
under {Watch}, n., 1.

Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward.
--Spenser.

2. One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender;
protector; means of guarding; defense; protection.

For the best ward of mine honor. --Shak.

The assieged castle's ward
Their steadfast stands did mightily maintain.
--Spenser.

For want of other ward,
He lifted up his hand, his front to guard. --Dryden.

3. The state of being under guard or guardianship;
confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a
guardian; custody.

And he put them in ward in the house of the captain
of the guard. --Gen. xl. 3.

I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am
now in ward. --Shak.

It is also inconvenient, in Ireland, that the wards
and marriages of gentlemen's children should be in
the disposal of any of those lords. --Spenser.

4. A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing;
guard. ``Thou knowest my old ward; here I lay, and thus I
bore my point.'' --Shak.

5. One who, or that which, is guarded. Specifically:
(a) A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a
ward in chancery. ``You know our father's ward, the
fair Monimia.'' --Otway.
(b) A division of a county. [Eng. & Scot.]
(c) A division, district, or quarter of a town or city.

Throughout the trembling city placed a guard,
Dealing an equal share to every ward. --Dryden.
(d) A division of a forest. [Eng.]
(e) A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward.

6.
(a) A projecting ridge of metal in the interior of a lock,
to prevent the use of any key which has not a
corresponding notch for passing it.
(b) A notch or slit in a key corresponding to a ridge in
the lock which it fits; a ward notch. --Knight.

The lock is made . . . more secure by attaching
wards to the front, as well as to the back,
plate of the lock, in which case the key must be
furnished with corresponding notches.
--Tomlinson.

{Ward penny} (O. Eng. Law), money paid to the sheriff or
castellan for watching and warding a castle.

{Ward staff}, a constable's or watchman's staff. [Obs.]


Ward \Ward\, v. i.
1. To be vigilant; to keep guard.

2. To act on the defensive with a weapon.

She redoubling her blows drove the stranger to no
other shift than to ward and go back. --Sir P.
Sidney.