Obs. [f. A- pref. 11 + WARD v.]

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  1.  trans. To guard.

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c. 1534.  Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (1846), 268. The passages weare straghtlie awarded bie there enemies.

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  2.  To ward off (blows, etc.).

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1579.  Poore Knights Palace, G iij.

        Then Clodius to award this blow, and to drive back this dome,
Protest that hee that present day, was not in roiall Rome.

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1670.  Evelyn, Mem. (1857), III. 222. Dexterously, yet candidly, to award some unlucky points that are not seldom made at us.

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1744.  Mitchell, in Phil. Trans., XLIII. 108. To award off this Violence of the Sun’s Beams.

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1783.  Ainsworth, Lat. Dict. (ed. Morell), To award, or ward off, a blow, Ictum avertère.

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