ware

1. (n) (uncountable, usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use. 2. (n) (uncountable) Pottery or metal goods. 3. (n) (in the plural) See wares. 4. (n) (Ireland) Crockery. 5. (n) (countable, archaeology) A style or genre of artifact. 6. (adj) (poetic) Aware. 7. (v) (obsolete) To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary. 8. (adj) (obsolete) Wary; cautious. 9. (v) (obsolete or dialectal) To be ware or mindful of something. 10. (n) (Northern England, Scotland) Spring, springtime. 11. (n) (obsolete, UK, dialect) Seaweed; drift seaweed; seawrack. 12. (v) Old eye dialect spelling of were. 13. (n) A place in England: 14. (n) A town and civil parish in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire (OS grid ref TL3614). 15. (n) A hamlet in Uplyme parish, East Devon district, Devon, next to Lyme Regis in Dorset (OS grid ref SY3291) 16. (n) A hamlet in Ash parish, Dover district, Kent (OS grid ref TR2860). 17. (n) A number of places in the United States: 18. (n) An unincorporated community in Union County, Illinois. 19. (n) An unincorporated community in Sherman Township, Pocahontas County, Iowa. 20. (n) An unincorporated community in Casey County, Kentucky. 21. (n) A town and census-designated place therein, in Hampshire County, Massachusetts. 22. (n) An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Missouri. 23. (n) (countable) A surname. 24. (n) A placename: 25. (v) (nautical) Alternative form of wear (“to veer or bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern”) [(transitive) To have on:] 26. (n) Ellipsis of Ware County. [One of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Waycross.]