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guarded, ppl. a.|ˈgɑːdɪd|
[f. guard v. or n. + -ed.]
1. a. Defended, protected, watched; having a guard or sentinel. In Fencing (hence fig., quot. 1821), protected by the ‘guard’.
1570Levins Manip. 49/24 Guarded, communitus. 1637Milton Lycidas 161 Where the great Vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold. 1667― P.L. ii. 945 Who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold. 1781Cowper Conversat. 556 Truth divine for ever stands secure, Its head as guarded as its base is sure. 1810Scott Lady of L. iv. xvi, What! said he nought..Of guarded pass? 1821Shelley Adonais xii, The breath Which gave it strength to pierce the guarded wit. 1838Thirlwall Greece II. 167 The fortress was surprised on its strongest and least guarded side.
absol.1749Fielding Tom Jones vii. xiv, By a strange reverse of fortune, the guard became the guarded. 1887Pall Mall G. 16 Aug. 10/1 The number of the guard depended on the character of the guarded.
b. Curling. (See guard v. 9.)
1685Lintoun Green (1817) 38 (E.D.D.) Roaring up the rink he flies The guarded tee to clear.
c. Surgery. (See quot. 1884.)
1883Martin & Moale Vertebr. Dissect. ii. 145 Find the duct of the pancreas, through which pass a guarded bristle into the duodenum. 1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., Guarded Instrument (Surgical), said of an instrument the point or cutting edge of which is concealed or guarded during introduction, and uncovered when at the place where it is to become effective.
d. Card-playing. Said of a card, esp. the next to the highest of a suit, when it is protected (in the same hand) by a lower card of the suit.
1742Hoyle Whist iv. 34 Do not throw away any of that Suit, even to keep a King or Queen guarded. 1821J. Burney Essay on Game of Whist 20 If you have the queen in sequence, guarded with a small card. 1863‘Cavendish’ Whist (ed. 5) 19 When a player holds the second best card guarded, he is said to have a minor tenace, or an imperfect minor tenace. Ibid. 37 In trumps, if king or queen is turned up, and it is only singly guarded (i.e. if you have only one other trump), it is generally best to put the turn-up on second hand. 1876‘Capt. Crawley’ Card-players' Man. 44 With ‘king singly guarded’—that is, with king and only one other card, play your king boldly.
e. Chess. (See guard v. 10.)
1835Hoyle's Games 337 Take care that no guarded pawn of your adversary's fork two of your pieces.
2. Surrounded by a guard of reserve or restraint; on one's guard; hence, esp. of a person's behaviour, speech, etc.: Careful; prudent; cautious.
1709Steele Tatler No. 79 ⁋1 Be guarded against giving or receiving little Provocations. 1728Gay Begg. Op. ii. x, Learn to be more guarded. 1772Junius Lett. lxviii. 335 The charge..brought against you is expressed in terms guarded and well considered. 1802M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1816) I. vii. 43 If you were upon your trial for life or death..you could not look more resolutely guarded. 1816Byron Ch. Har. iii. x, Secure in guarded coldness. 1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. II. 81 The government has preserved a cool and guarded tone throughout. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vii. II. 360 Their language was so guarded that nothing was gained by the examination. a1859Ibid. xxiii. (1861) V. 106 Portland made a courteous but guarded answer. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 790 In people over forty..limitation of the affection to one [vocal] cord..should lead to a guarded prognosis.
3. a. Ornamented, as with lace, braid, embroidery, etc.; trimmed; tricked out; having ‘guards’ or trimmings (in 17th c. often allusively). Obs. exc. Hist. and spec. in Her. of a garment: Trimmed or turned up with some material.
1509–10Act 1 Hen. VIII, c. 14 §1 No servyng manne waytyng uppon his Maister..were eny garded Hose. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 108 Ministers, that flaunt it out in their saten doblets,..garded gownes, cloakes, and the like. 1599Marston Sco. Villanie ii. vii. 204 Would not some head..Sweare yon same Damaske-coat, yon garded man Were some graue sober Cato Vtican? 1606Day Ile of Guls v. i. H 3 b, Man. I am no knight, I am Manasses, they made a plaine foole. Dam. The onely were [i.e. wear] for the guarded [printed gaurded] foole is out of request. 1609Ev. Woman in Hum. ii. i. in Bullen O. Pl. IV, I grieve to see this double garded age, all side-coate, all foole. 1626Massinger Rom. Actor i. i, The most censorious of our Roman gentrie, Nay, of the guarded robe, the Senators. 1628Ford Lover's Mel. i. ii, In stead of a fine guarded Page, We haue got him A boy, trickt vp in neat and handsome Fashion. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. x. v. 89 Besides, the Place was proper not for the plain but guarded Gown. 1834J. R. Planché Brit. Costume 274 Large Gallic or Venetian hosen, slashed, quilted, stuffed, and guarded (or laced), were worn as before. 1868Cussans Her. (1893) 129.
†b. Of a flower: Having a border or stripe of colour. Obs.
1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 115/1 Edged, as Flower leaves often are..of which there are several terms, as edged, striped or streaked, garded, [etc.]. 1779Sheridan Critic ii. ii, The striped carnation and the guarded rose.
4. Of a book: Having guards. (See guard n. 16 l.)
1888Jacobi Printer's Voc. s.v., Books are said to be ‘guarded’ when the plates are mounted or sewn on guards instead of being stitched or pasted in the ordinary way. 1889H. B. Wheatley How to Catal. iii. 71 The slips are lightly pasted down into guarded volumes. |