Word Meanings - GUARDROOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The room occupied by the guard during its term of duty; also, a room where prisoners are confined.

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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
  A guardian. Shak.
• DURAMEN
  The heartwood of an exogenous tree.
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• WHEREIN
  1. In which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; -- used relatively. Her clothes wherein she was clad. Chaucer. There are times wherein a man ought to be cautious as well as innocent. Swift. 2. In what; -- used interrogatively. Yet
• WHEREVER
  At or in whatever place; wheresoever. He can not but love virtue wherever it is. Atterbury.
• GUARDIANESS
  A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
• DURIO
  A fruit tree of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian.
• GUARDIANLESS
  Without a guardian. Marston.
• CONFINABLE
  Capable of being confined, restricted, or limited. Not confinable to any limits. Bp. Hall.
• DUROUS
  Hard.
• GUARDER
  One who guards.
• WHERETO
  1. To which; -- used relatively. "Whereto we have already attained." Phil. iii. 16. Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day. Shak. 2. To what; to what end; -- used interrogatively.
• DURANTE
  During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure.
• WHEREAS
  1. Considering that; it being the case that; since; -- used to introduce a preamble which is the basis of declarations, affirmations, commands, requests, or like, that follow. 2. When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that;
• GUARDS
  A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards."
• DURANCY
  Duration. Dr. H. More.
• WHERE'ER
  Wherever; -- a contracted and poetical form. Cowper.
• DURRA
  A kind of millet, cultivated throughout Asia, and introduced into the south of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; -- called
• DUR
  Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• WHER; WHERE
  Whether. Piers Plowman. Men must enquire , Wher she be wise or sober or dronkelewe. Chaucer.
• REVERDURE
  To cover again with verdure. Ld. Berners.
• PODURA
  Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail. Podura scale , one of the minute scales with which the body of a podura is covered. They are used as test objects for the microscope. (more info) podo`s,
• OBDURATION
  A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart.
• 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.
• ORDURE
  1. Dung; excrement; fæces. Shak. 2. Defect; imperfection; fault. Holland.
• BORDURE
  A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.
• EVERYWHERENESS
  Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew.
• EVERYWHERE
  In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.