·noun The van or advanced body of an army. ·see Vanguard.
·noun The front of an army. [Obs.] ·see <<Van>>. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·vt Watch; heed; care; attention; as, to keep guard. II. Guard ·noun To fasten by binding; to <<Gir...
1) Heb. tabbah (properly a "cook," and in a secondary sense "executioner," because this office fell ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
The duty performed by a body of men stationed to watch and protect any post against surprise. A divi...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A person dispatched before another person or company, to give notice of his or their approach....
In fortification, an advanced ditch without the counterscarp, and stretching along the foot of the g...
·- The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in...
·noun The guard or defense of a castle. II. Castle-guard ·noun A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant...
·noun A covering or protection, as a canvas, for a stack. ...
A shabby, mean fellow; a term said to be derived from a number of dirty, tattered roguish boys, who ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
n. Erroneous spelling of Garfish (q.v.). ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
The men who are stationed on the quarter-deck and poop, to work the after-sails. It was generally co...
A small proportion of any body of troops on the march, to whom the care of the whole baggage is assi...
A party detached to cover foragers, those wooding, watering, &c. ...
Synonymous with chain-wales. ...
A boat appointed to row the rounds amongst the ships of war in any harbour, &c., to observe that the...
Report of guard; a copy of which is delivered at the admiral's office by the officer of the last gua...
A corruption of the word gar-fish. ...
Curved bars of iron placed over the ornaments of a ship to defend them from damage. ...
A vessel of war appointed to superintend the marine affairs in a harbour, and to visit the ships whi...
Officers appointed to superintend the due observance of the quarantine regulations. ...
The principal guard of a garrison town, usually posted in the place-of-arms, or the market-place. ...
A small guard posted in front of each battalion in camp. ...
That part of the army which brings up and protects the rear. ...
Custom-house officers employed to prevent fraud on the revenue in vessels arriving at, or departing ...
The document rendered in by the guard-boat, of every vessel boarded during her hours of duty, with t...
The order for the marines of the guard to fall in, on the quarter-deck, in order to receive a superi...