A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority)
a female child, a girl.
One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
The thirteenth Lenormand card.
A figurative offspring, particularly:
A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age.
Anything derived from or caused by something.
A guard; a guardian or watchman.
Protection, defence.
A guard or watchman; now replaced by warden.
The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.).
Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area, or a social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering, approaching or even from being able to locate said protected premises.
Land tenure through military service.
A protected place, and by extension, a type of subdivision.
A guarding or defensive motion or position.
An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
A section or subdivision of a prison.
An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
A division of a forest.
A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
A person under guardianship.
A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.
A minor looked after by a guardian.
An object used for guarding.
An underage orphan.
To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
To defend, to protect.
To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.
To be vigilant; to keep guard.
To act on the defensive with a weapon.
