Word Meanings - CIRCUMSPECTNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Vigilance un guarding against evil from every quarter; caution. forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton.

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• CAUTIONARY BLOCK
  A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
• 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.,
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• CIRCUMSPECTNESS
  Vigilance un guarding against evil from every quarter; caution. forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton.
• GUARDIANESS
  A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• EVERYWHERENESS
  Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew.
• GUARDIANLESS
  Without a guardian. Marston.
• EVERYWHERE
  In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.
• GUARDER
  One who guards.
• GUARDANT
  See GARDANT (more info) 1. Acting as guardian. Shak.
• QUARTER ROUND
  An ovolo.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• GUARDS
  A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards."
• QUARTERON; QUARTEROON
  A quadroon.
• CAUTION
  scavere) to be on one's guard, to take care to be on the 1. A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness. 2. Security; guaranty; bail.
• QUARTERON
  A quarter; esp., a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred. Piers Plowman.
• NURSE
  A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place. A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariæ by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia. Either one of the nurse sharks. Nurse
• SECURITY
  1. The condition or quality of being secure; secureness. Specifically: Freedom from apprehension, anxiety, or care; confidence of power of safety; hence, assurance; certainty. His trembling hand had lost the ease, Which marks security to please.
• GUARDHOUSE
  A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• 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.
• PRECAUTION
  praecautum, to guard against beforehand; prae before + cavere be on 1. Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution. They treasured up their supposed discoveries
• COGUARDIAN
  A joint guardian.
• REVERY
  See REVERIE
• 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,