Definition of "ware" in 英语

noun

1. (uncountable, usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.

2. (in the plural) See wares.

3. (uncountable) Pottery or metal goods.

   • damascene ware, tole ware

4. (countable, archaeology) A style or genre of artifact.

5. (Ireland) Crockery.

adjective

1. (poetic) Aware.

verb

1. (obsolete or dialectal) To be ware or mindful of something.

   • 1450, Palladius on Husbondrieː Ware the horn and heels lest they fling a flap to thee.
   • c. 1450, Who Ðat Liste Lokeː Ware avoutrer untrue; Such love was never good ne may be true.
   • c. 1470, The Macro Playsː ‘Ware that!’ quoth Ser Wyly.

2. (obsolete) To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.

   • Ware thee.

adjective

1. (obsolete) Wary; cautious.

noun

1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) Seaweed; drift seaweed; seawrack.

verb

1. (nautical) Alternative form of wear (“to veer or bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern”)

noun

1. (Northern England, Scotland) Spring, springtime.

verb

1. Old eye dialect spelling of were.

   • c. 1815, Mary Woody, A true account of Nayomy Wise A larg concors ware standing round

verb

1. (obsolete) simple past of wear