Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) Sorrow, grief.

* a1307 , , Chronicle'', read in Thomas Hearne, ''Peter Langtoft's Chronicle'' (1725) as reprinted, apparently in facsimile, in ''The Works of Thomas Hearne, M.A. Volume 3, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, Volume I , Samuel Bagster (1810) p. 5

Noun

(en noun)

The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.

* 1613 , Richard Moore, Silvester Jourdain, William Crashaw, William Castell, ''A Plaine Description of the Barmvdas, Now Called Sommer Ilands: With the manner of their discouerie anno 1609...[full title extends to 77 words], W. Welby, p .8,

A more full and exact description of the Countrie, and Narration of the nature, site , and commodities, together with a true Historie of the great deliuerance of Sir Thomas Gates and his companie vpon them, which was the first discouerie of them.

* 1705 , Robert Plot, The Natural History of Oxford-shire: being an essay towards the natural history of England. The Second Edition with Large Additions and Corections: Also a Short Account of the Author, &c. , Charles Brome & John Nicholson, p. 315,

However, I have taken care in the Map prefix'd to this Essay, to put a Mark for the Site of all Religious Houses, as well as ancient Ways and Fortifications....

* 1785 , Henry Morris, Surgical diseases of the kidney , Lea Brothers and Co, p. 74,

At the site of its termination in the bladder there was a diverticulum a few centimeters long.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

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With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get

* 2006 , Ernest B Abbott , A Legal Guide to Homeland Security and Emergency Management for State and Local Governments , American Bar Association, ISBN 1590315936, p. 84,

EA critical first line of defense for entrance to more semi-public and semi-private areas of the site .

A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation; as, a site for a church.

* 1716 , Samuel Wesley, The history of the Old and New Testament, attempted in verse: And adorn'd with Three Hundred & Thirty Sculptures , John Hooke, p. 192,

The Town surrender'd soon, the Citadel,/Proud of its Site , do's their Assaults repel/Who e're their Idols cou'd, and them destroy,/For Life he shall the Gen'ral's place enjoy.

* 1716 , John Mortimer, Th. Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry: or, The way of managing and improving of land. Being a...[full title extends to 70 words]...The Second Volume...The Fourth Edition, with Additions , R. Robinson, and G. Mortlock, p. 208

Having given you an Account of the Site , Form, and other Ornaments of a Garden: I shall proceed to what remains for the beautifying of it, which is Flowers.

* 2006 , Geoff Surratt, Greg Ligon, Warren Bird, The Multi-Site Church Revolution: Being One Church in Many Locations , Zondervan, ISBN 0310270154, p. 7,

Our first site was the result of a building project that I am told was the first urban redevelopment initiated by a church since "white flight" began in the community surrounding our church.

The posture or position of a thing.

* 1709 , A Preliminary Discourse to the Commonitory of Vincentius Lirinensis Concerning the Rule of Faith, in Defence of the Primitive Fathers'' read in William Reeves, Tertullian, Marcus Minucius Felix, Vincent, Justin, ''The Apologies of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Minutius Felix in Defence of the Christian Religion...[full title extends to over 50 words] , A. and J. Churchill, p. 179,

And if this be the Shape, and Site , then the Refraction of the Rays coming from above onto the subjacent Ice, being as about Four to Three, they must when coming out of the superior Ice be as about Three to Four.

* 1724 , John Beaumont, Gleanings of Antiquities: containing, I. An Essay for Explaining the Creation and the Deluge, according to the Sense of the Gentiles...[full title extends to over 98 words] , W. Taylor, p. 11,

There is an Agreement ammong all their Authors regarding the Names of the said Times, and their Order, and concerning the Number of the Days in general, and of the Order of the Creation ; but concerning the Site of the Times, that is, in what Month, Day, and in what part of the Year they began, it is not so.

2006 , Ernest B Abbott , A Legal Guide to Homeland Security and Emergency Management for State and Local Governments , American Bar Association, ISBN 1590315936, p. 84,

:* Maintain site setbacks as far as possible from roadways and other routes providing rapid public access.

A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.

* 1982 , Jack B. Rochester, Perspectives on Information Management: A Critical Selection of Computerworld Feature Articles , John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0471869244, p. 433,

The data may be divided among a data base system's nodes in several ways. In a fully redundant data base system, each data base site contains a complete copy of the entire data base...

* 1991 , V. Yodaiken, K. Ramamritham, Verification of a Reliable Net Protocol'', read in J. (Jan) Vytopil (editor), ''Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems: Second International Symposium, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, January 1992: Proceedings , Springer, ISBN 0387550925, p. 208,

If the site' is forced to send a mesage against its will,...we make the '''site''' go to an error state, and remain there. Note that the ' site can fail for other reasons.

* 2006 , Keith J. Dreyer, Pacs: A Guide to the Digital Revolution , Springer, ISBN 0387260102, p. 298,

The site with the DS3 connection can communicate back to our main network at 45 Mb/s.

A website.

* 1986 , Penguin Putnam Inc. Online, advertisement inside back cover of Howard Pyle The Story of King Arthur and His Knights , Signet Classic (1986), ISBN 0451524888, p. 398,

Every month you'll get an inside look at our upcoming books and new features on our site .

* 1992 , Publisher's notes on relevant web sites, in front of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre , Wordsworth Editions (1992), ISBN 1853260207, p. xxvi,

Voice of the Shuttle: http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-vict.html; general site with excellent links to contextual as well as author-specific material.

* 2006 , Doug Addison, Web Site Cookbook , O'Reilly, ISBN 0596101090, p. 248,

When a new visitor arrives at your site', your web server should log the referring ' site , which is generally either a search engine or another web site.

(category theory) A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.

Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.

A part of the body which has been operated on.

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic, or, obsolete) A guard; a guardian or watchman.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.xi:

no gate they found, them to withhold, / Nor ward to wait at morne and euening late [...].

Noun

(en noun)

Protection, defence.

# (obsolete) A guard or watchman; now replaced by warden .

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

the best ward of mine honour

#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

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

#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

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

# The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc. ).

#* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vii:

Before the dore sat selfe-consuming Care, / Day and night keeping wary watch and ward , / For feare least Force or Fraud should vnaware / Breake in

# Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.

#* 1485 , Sir (Thomas Malory), (w, Le Morte d'Arthur) , Book V:

So forth the presoners were brought before Arthure, and he commaunded hem into kepyng of the conestabyls warde , surely to be kepte as noble presoners.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

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

#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

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.

# An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area, or a social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering, approaching and/or even from being able to locate said-protected premises

# (historical, Scots law) Land tenure through military service.

# (fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Thou knowest my old ward ; here I lay, and thus I bore my point.

A protected place.

# (archaic) An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.

#* 1942 , (Rebecca West), Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , Canongate 2006, page 149:

Diocletian.

#* 2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, p. 78:

With the castle so crowded, the outer ward had been given over to guests to raise their tents and pavilions, leaving only the smaller inner yards for training.

# A section or subdivision of a prison.

# An administrative division of a borough, city or council.

#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

Throughout the trembling city placed a guard, / Dealing an equal share to every ward .

# (UK) A division of a forest.

# (Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.

# A room in a hospital where patients reside.

#* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 16, author=Denis Campbell, work=Guardian

, title= Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients' , passage=Many hospitals have not taken simple steps to lessen the distress and confusion which dementia sufferers' often feel on being somewhere so unfamiliar – such as making signs large and easy to read, using colour schemes to help patients find their way around unfamiliar wards and not putting family mementoes such as photographs nearby.}}

A person under guardianship.

# A minor looked after by a guardian.

#* , chapter=22

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}

# (obsolete) An underage orphan.

An object used for guarding.

# The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.

#*, II.1:

A man must thorowly sound himselfe, and dive into his heart, and there see by what wards or springs the motions stirre.

#* Tomlinson

The lock is mademore 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.

#* 1893 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), ‘The Resident Patient’, Norton 2005, page 628:

With the help of a wire, however, they forced round the key. Even without the lens you will perceive, by the scratches on this ward , where the pressure was applied.