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ware

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Noun

  1. Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
  2. See wares.
  3. Pottery or metal goods.
  4. A style or genre of artifact.
  5. Crockery.
  6. Seaweed; drift seaweed; seawrack.
  7. Spring, springtime.

Adjective

  1. Aware.
  2. Wary; cautious.

Verb

  1. To be ware or mindful of something.
  2. To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.
  3. Alternative form of wear (“to veer or bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern”)
  4. Old eye dialect spelling of were.
  5. simple past of wear

Proper noun

  1. A place in England: A hamlet in Uplyme parish, East Devon district, Devon, next to Lyme Regis in Dorset (OS grid ref SY3291)
  2. A place in England: A town and civil parish in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire (OS grid ref TL3614).
  3. A place in England: A hamlet in Ash parish, Dover district, Kent (OS grid ref TR2860).
  4. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Union County, Illinois.
  5. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Sherman Township, Pocahontas County, Iowa.
  6. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Casey County, Kentucky.
  7. A number of places in the United States: A town and census-designated place therein, in Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
  8. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Missouri.
  9. A number of places in the United States: Ellipsis of Ware County.
  10. A surname.

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