guard sb. (other S. uses than those below are: ‘protection, defence,’ ‘posture of defence,’ ‘watch,’ ‘protector, defender’)
1.
keeping, guardianship, custody
Err. V. i. 149
“He broke from those
that had the of him,”
Mer.V. I. iii. 176
“in the fearful Of an
unthrifty knave,”
Cor. I. x. 25 (‘under the protection of my brother’), Lr. V. iii. 1, 48,
Ant. V. ii. 67
“I'll take her to my
”
2.
“at a ,” on his defence
Meas. I. iii. 51; “out of” one's “,” unprepared Tw.N. I. v. 92.
3.
pl. caution
Compl. 298
“Shook off my sober
guards.”
4.
border or trimming on
a garment Meas. III. i. 95, Ado I. i. 297 [289] “the g-s are but slightly
basted”
“on,”
1H4 III. i. 260
“velvet g-s”
; fig.
LLL. IV. iii. 58
“rimes are g-s on wanton
Cupid's hose”
: with play on the meaning ‘defence’ 2H4 I. i.
148.
5.
pl. the stars
β and γ of the
constellation of the Lesser Bear,
Oth. II. i. 15
“the g-s of the
ever-fixed pole.”
