ware

• (UK) IPA^(key): /wɛə(ɹ)/
• (US) enPR: wĕr, IPA^(key): /wɛɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophones: wear, where (wine-whine merger)

From Old English wær, from Proto-Germanic *waraz.

ware (comparative more ware, superlative most ware)

1. (poetic) Aware.

Replaced by intensified form aware.

• aware
• beware
• unware

ware (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The state of being aware; heed.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)

From Old English waru, from Proto-Germanic *warō (“attention”) as in beware, in the sense of “an object of care, a valuable”,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *wer-, whence also ward. Cognate with Dutch waar (“goods offered for sale or use”) and Swedish vara, with the same meaning.

ware (usually uncountable, plural wares)

1. (uncountable, usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
   • 1923, John Lord, Capital and steam-power, 1750-1800‎:

     Astbury was the more successful and made frequent journeys to London, where he sold his ware and obtained further orders.

   • 2002 March 28, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     On Sunday, a Mr. Stephen Muturi Kamau, aged 20 years, was shot dead at Dandora while he was selling his ware. This is a well known hawker. He has been hawking his ware in Dandora.

   • 2011, Tonya Kappes, Carpe Bead'em‎:

     What in the world am I going to do with tarnished silver ware? The deeper I dig, I pull out more silver with carved handles.

   • 2012, Julie Watson, Frommer's Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island‎, page 179:

     Artisans sell their ware in the historic district at the lower level of the Soldier's Barracks.

2. (in the plural) See wares.
3. (uncountable) Pottery or metal goods.

   damascene ware, tole ware

4. (countable, archaeology) A style or genre of artifact.
5. (Ireland) Crockery.

• Biddery ware
• Corded Ware culture
• -ware

From Middle English waren (“to be ware, be on guard, be mindful, protect, guard”), fromw Old English warian, from Proto-Germanic *warōną.

ware (third-person singular simple present wares, present participle waring, simple past and past participle wared)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) To be ware or mindful of something.
   • 1450, Palladius on Husbondrieː

     Ware the horn and heels lest they fling a flap to thee.

   • c1450, Who Ðat Liste Lokeː

     Ware avoutrer untrue; Such love was never good ne may be true.

   • c1470, The Macro Playsː

     ‘Ware that!’ quoth Ser Wyly.

2. (obsolete) To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.

   Ware thee.

   (watch yourself)

ware (comparative more ware, superlative most ware)

1. (obsolete) wary; cautious
   • Bible, 2 Tim. iv. 15

     Of whom be thou ware also.

   • Latimer

     He is ware enough; he is wily and circumspect for stirring up any sedition.

• wary

• ward

From Old English war (“seaweed”). Cognate with Dutch wier (“seaweed”), Middle Dutch wier (“seaweed”).

ware

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialectal) seaweed

• ware goose

ware (third-person singular simple present wares, present participle waring, simple past and past participle wared)

1. (nautical) To wear, or veer.

ware

1. Old eye dialect spelling of were
   • 1800's, Mary Woody, A true account of Nayomy Wise:

     A larg concors ware standing round

• -wear, Wear, arew, wear

ware

1. Imperfect subjunctive form of wees

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• IPA^(key): /ˈʋaːrə/

ware

1. Inflected form of waar

ware

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of zijn
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of waren

wārḕ (grade 4)

1. to separate things, to set things aside
2. to secede

ware

1. Rōmaji transcription of われ

ware

1. ignorant

ware

1. saliva

From Old Dutch *wara, from Proto-Germanic *warō.

wāre f

1. merchandise, product

• Dutch: waar
• Limburgish: waar

See the etymology of the main entry.

wâre

1. first- and third-person singular past subjunctive of wēsen

• “ware (III)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “ware (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

From Old French vair.

ware

1. Alternative form of veir

From Old English werre, wyrre.

ware

1. Alternative form of werre

• IPA^(key): [wer], [war], [voːr]

ware (plural wares)

1. spring, springtime
2. cold weather in springtime

• spring

• IPA^(key): [weːr]

ware (plural wares)

1. a type of seaweed

• warebrak