[syn: consume, squander, waste, ware]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ware \Ware\, n. [AS. waru caution.]
The state of being ware or aware; heed. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ware \Ware\, v. t. [As. warian.]
To make ware; to warn; to take heed of; to beware of; to
guard against. "Ware that I say." --Chaucer.
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God . . . ware you for the sin of avarice. --Chaucer.
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Then ware a rising tempest on the main. --Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ware \Ware\, obs. imp. of Wear.
Wore.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ware \Ware\, v. t. (Naut.)
To wear, or veer. See Wear.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ware \Ware\, n. [AS. w[=a]r.] (Bot.)
Seaweed. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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Ware goose (Zool.), the brant; -- so called because it
feeds on ware, or seaweed. [Prov. Eng.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ware \Ware\, n. [OE. ware, AS. waru; akin to D. waar, G. waare,
Icel. & Sw. vara, Dan. vare; and probably to E. worth, a. See
Worth, a.]
Articles of merchandise; the sum of articles of a particular
kind or class; style or class of manufactures; especially, in
the plural, goods; commodities; merchandise. "Retails his
wares at wakes." --Shak. "To chaffer with them and eke to
sell them their ware." --Chaucer.
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It the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on
the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of
them on the Sabbath, or on the holy day. --Neh. x. 31.
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Note: Although originally and properly a collective noun, it
admits of a plural form, when articles of merchandise
of different kinds are meant. It is often used in
composition; as in hardware, glassware, tinware, etc.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ware \Ware\, a. [OE. war, AS. w[ae]r. [root]142. See Wary.]
A ware; taking notice; hence, wary; cautious; on one's guard.
See Beware. [Obs.]
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She was ware and knew it bet [better] than he.
--Chaucer.
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Of whom be thou ware also. --2. Tim. iv.
15.
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He is ware enough; he is wily and circumspect for
stirring up any sedition. --Latimer.
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The only good that grows of passed fear
Is to be wise, and ware of like again. --Spenser.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
ware
n 1: articles of the same kind or material; usually used in
combination: `silverware', `software'
2: commodities offered for sale; "good business depends on
having good merchandise"; "that store offers a variety of
products" [syn: merchandise, ware, product]
v 1: spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not" [syn: consume,
squander, waste, ware]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
45 Moby Thesaurus words for "ware":
alive, apprehensive, article, article of commerce,
article of merchandise, au courant, awake, catalog goods,
cognizant, commodities, commodity, conscious, consumer goods,
consumer items, conversant, drug, effects, feature, goods,
goods for sale, inventory, item, job lot, knowing, lead item,
leader, line, line of goods, loss leader, mail-order goods,
merchandise, product, seconds, sensible, sideline, special,
standard article, staple, staple item, staples, stock,
stock-in-trade, vendible, vendibles, wares
U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000):
Ware -- U.S. County in Georgia
Population (2000): 35483
Housing Units (2000): 15831
Land area (2000): 902.293304 sq. miles (2336.928831 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 4.018689 sq. miles (10.408357 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 906.311993 sq. miles (2347.337188 sq. km)
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 31.205650 N, 82.412807 W
Headwords:
Ware
Ware, GA
Ware County
Ware County, GA
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Ware, MA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Massachusetts
Population (2000): 6174
Housing Units (2000): 2906
Land area (2000): 6.174500 sq. miles (15.991881 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.136136 sq. miles (0.352591 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.310636 sq. miles (16.344472 sq. km)
FIPS code: 72845
Located within: Massachusetts (MA), FIPS 25
Location: 42.259965 N, 72.245841 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 01082
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Ware, MA
Ware