These are the meanings of the letters AREW when you unscramble them.
- Ware (a.)
A ware; taking notice; hence, wary; cautious; on one's guard. See Beware.
- Ware (a.)
Articles of merchandise; the sum of articles of a particular kind or class; style or class of manufactures; especially, in the plural, goods; commodities; merchandise.
- Ware (imp.)
Wore.
- Ware (n.)
Seaweed.
- Ware (n.)
The state of being ware or aware; heed.
- Ware (v. t.)
To make ware; to warn; to take heed of; to beware of; to guard against.
- Ware (v. t.)
To wear, or veer. See Wear.
- Wear (n.)
A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like.
- Wear (n.)
A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.
- Wear (n.)
A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, -- used in measuring the quantity of flowing water.
- Wear (n.)
Same as Weir.
- Wear (n.)
The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment.
- Wear (n.)
The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion.
- Wear (v. i.)
To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually.
- Wear (v. i.)
To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance.
- Wear (v. t.)
To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle.
- Wear (v. t.)
To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole.
- Wear (v. t.)
To cause to go about, as a vessel, by putting the helm up, instead of alee as in tacking, so that the vessel's bow is turned away from, and her stern is presented to, the wind, and, as she turns still farther, her sails fill on the other side; to veer.
- Wear (v. t.)
To form or shape by, or as by, attrition.
- Wear (v. t.)
To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance.
- Wear (v. t.)
To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend.
- Wear (v. t.)
To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly.