Word Meanings - UNGUARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive of a guard; to leave unprotected. Sterne.

Related words: (words related to UNGUARD)

• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• GUARDIAN
  One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
• GUARDANT
  See GARDANT (more info) 1. Acting as guardian. Shak.
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• GUARDIANESS
  A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
• LEAVED
  Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
• GUARDIANLESS
  Without a guardian. Marston.
• GUARDER
  One who guards.
• GUARDS
  A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards."
• LEAVENING
  1. The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven. 2. That which leavens or makes light. Bacon.
• GUARDHOUSE
  A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up.
• LEAVELESS
  Leafless. Carew.
• GUARDED
  Cautious; wary; circumspect; as, he was guarded in his expressions; framed or uttered with caution; as, his expressions were guarded. -- Guard"edly, adv. -- Guard"ed*ness, n.
• GUARDFISH
  The garfish.
• GUARDENAGE
  Guardianship. " His tuition and guardenage." Holland.
• STERNER
  A director. Dr. R. Clerke.
• GUARDIANAGE
  Guardianship.
• DEPRIVER
  One who, or that which, deprives.
• GUARDAGE
  Wardship Shak.
• BELEAVE
  To leave or to be left. May.
• COUNTERGUARD
  A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.
• CLEAVER
  One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
• PINK-STERNED
  Having a very narrow stern; -- said of a vessel.
• COGUARDIAN
  A joint guardian.
• FIVE-LEAFED; FIVE-LEAVED
  Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper.
• VANGUARD
  The troops who march in front of an army; the advance guard; the van. (more info) avant before, fore + garde guard. See Avant, Ab-,Ante-, and Guard,
• PARKLEAVES
  A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
• AXLE GUARD
  The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically; -- also called a jaw in the United States, and a housing in England.