ward (n.)
- acropolis
- administration
- aegis
- archbishopric
- archdiocese
- armament
- armor
- asylum
- auspices
- avert
- bailiwick
- balk
- bastion
- beachhead
- bishopric
- block
- blockhouse
- borough
- bridgehead
- bunker
- canton
- care
- castle
- charge
- check
- citadel
- city
- client
- clinic
- commune
- county
- cure
- custodianship
- custody
- defence
- defense
- dependent
- diocese
- dispensary
- district
- donjon
- duchy
- electorate
- emergency
- encumbrance
- fastness
- foil
- fort
- fortress
- garrison
- gerrymander
- governance
- government
- guard
- guardianship
- guidance
- halt
- hamlet
- hands
- hold
- home
- hospital
- hundred
- infirmary
- interrupt
- isolation
- jurisdiction
- keep
- keeping
- laboratory
- lookout
- magistracy
- management
- metropolis
- ministry
- mote
- nursery
- oblast
- oversight
- parish
- parry
- pastorate
- pastorship
- patronage
- peel
- pensionary
- pensioner
- pharmacy
- picket
- pillbox
- post
- precinct
- principality
- protection
- protectorship
- protege
- province
- rath
- region
- resistance
- riding
- safeguard
- safehold
- safekeeping
- sanatorium
- security
- self-defense
- self-preservation
- self-protection
- sentinel
- sentry
- shield
- shire
- sickbed
- sickroom
- stake
- state
- stay
- stewardship
- stronghold
- stymie
- surgery
- territory
- therapy
- thwart
- tower
- town
- township
- trust
- turn
- tutelage
- village
- wardenship
- wardship
- watch
- watchman
- wing
ward (v.)
- armor
- avert
- balk
- block
- bunker
- canton
- care
- castle
- charge
- check
- commune
- cure
- deflect
- deter
- district
- divert
- fend
- foil
- forestall
- fort
- frustrate
- garrison
- gerrymander
- guard
- halt
- hands
- hold
- home
- interrupt
- keep
- mote
- obviate
- parry
- patronage
- peel
- picket
- post
- preclude
- safeguard
- sentinel
- shield
- stake
- state
- stay
- stymie
- thwart
- tower
- town
- trust
- turn
- watch
- wing
ward (adv.)
ward (adj.)
Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it:
He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.
I have peppered two of them: two I am sure I have paid, two rogues in buckram suits. I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face; call me horse. Thou knowest my old ward: here I lay, and thus I bore my point. Four rogues in buckram let drive at me—
