Word Meanings - GUARDHOUSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up.

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• 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.
• GUARDIANESS
  A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
• GUARDIANLESS
  Without a guardian. Marston.
• CONFINABLE
  Capable of being confined, restricted, or limited. Not confinable to any limits. Bp. Hall.
• GUARDER
  One who guards.
• GUARDS
  A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards."
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• MISCONDUCT
  To behave amiss.
• GUARDHOUSE
  A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up.
• CONFINELESS
  Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• 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.
• CONFINEMENT
  1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by
• CONFINITY
  Community of limits; contiguity. Bailey.
• GUARDFISH
  The garfish.
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• GUARDENAGE
  Guardianship. " His tuition and guardenage." Holland.
• OCCUPIER
  1. One who occupies, or has possession. 2. One who follows an employment; hence, a tradesman. "Merchants and occupiers." Holland. The occupiers of thy merchandise. Ezek. xxvii. 27.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• 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.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• SHIPBUILDER
  A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.
• COGUARDIAN
  A joint guardian.
• 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,
• OUTBUILD
  To exceed in building, or in durability of building.
• 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.
• OVERBUILD
  1. To build over. Milton. 2. To build too much; to build beyond the demand.