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noun

Usually, wares.

articles of merchandise or manufacture; goods: a peddler selling his wares.

any intangible items, as services or products of artistic or intellectual creativity, that are salable: an actor advertising his wares.

a specified kind or class of merchandise or of manufactured article (usually used in combination): silverware; glassware.

pottery, or a particular kind of pottery: delft ware.

Archaeology. a group of ceramic types classified according to paste and texture, surface modification, as burnish or glaze, and decorative motifs rather than shape and color.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English; Old English waru; cognate with German Ware

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The online format, she said, offered a wider range of ways to display her academic wares than traditional portfolio formats.

Hardly any traders spread their wares along the pavement for eager shoppers.

Try wagon rides and runs around the expansive property by day, and sample the wares at the on-site farm store.

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The online format, she said, offered a wider range of ways to display her academic wares than traditional portfolio formats.

Hardly any traders spread their wares along the pavement for eager shoppers.

Try wagon rides and runs around the expansive property by day, and sample the wares at the on-site farm store.

Psychopharmacology is big business for drug companies and doctors who dream up new disorders to sell their wares.

Talented craftspeople are turning food packaging into sophisticated and creative wares.

Salvaged metal drawers keep small wares accessible but out of view.

Attractive, scantily clad women hired to hawk a company's wares.

The goal would have to be to ensure that companies promote their wares and manage their premises that support peaceful shopping.

Until, that is, you notice how the locals purchase their wares.

Jewelers, potters, and carvers display their wares in the shade along the city's main square.

He's there every day, unless it's a federal holiday, pedaling his wares from a folding chair.

All sorts of vendors converge there to sell their wares.

Wild mushroom varieties are available at gourmet markets or at farmers' markets, where foragers often sell their wares.

As with the music-only iPod, other companies had long been selling similar wares.

But recent years have brought new hardships as demand for their wares has shrivelled.

All the local farmers gathered on this day to sell their wares.

Although chicken soup is soothing it's balm wares off when the bowl empties.

He also noticed the musicality of the cries of street vendors selling their wares.

The parody is in response to the tactics used by the drug industry to sell their wares to the public.

Poor countries can enter this global market readily, but until now they have been unable to sell their wares freely.

Boys with pushcarts scurried past donkeys laden with wares.

Those trying to sell wares outside official markets are arrested and their products grabbed.

Locals come daily to peddle their hand-loomed and handcrafted wares.

Guided by the price their wares will fetch, they decide to make more goods or fewer.

If you've got some extra cash, the boutique in back sells global wares.

The wares on offer range from bicycles to television sets and cosmetics.

Many of these growers sell their wares at farmers markets.

Japanese wares are stuffed inside or are essential for producing it.

For one, tourists can purchase items from the locals which will help the poor who sell their wares.

Already some makers of expensive and complex equipment no longer sell their wares but charge for their use.

It is not in their collective interest to derail economic growth or destroy demand for their wares.

Other immigrants have unlicensed corner shops or hawk their wares on the streets: their modest success fuels jealousy.

In neighborhoods across the city, skirmishes are breaking out over which ice cream franchise can sell its wares on which route.

Hedging the price at which you sell your wares is, thanks to forward contracts, fairly straightforward.

Hundreds of digital-video-tech manufacturers demo'd their latest wares to potential buyers.

Medical experts are urging kitchen knife manufacturers to redesign their wares as a crime control measure.

No matter how hard the boosters try to sell the wares of this.

The attendants wear as many hearts as possible, and all the wares exposed bear that emblem.

She is soon ringed by hagglers wanting her paltry wares for even less than the pittance she asks.

Entertainment have been nominated year after year, sometimes for the same elusive product, sometimes for different wares.

On every downtown city block here, men and women sit hawking their wares.

Peruse the wares of indie jewelry makers outside and watch painters putting the jumbled rooftop view down on paper.

As of now, we've been unable to turn up examples of actual merc firms offering their wares to the rebels.

In the beginning, the wares were plain white with thin bands of gold as decoration.

Tupper tried selling his wares in department stores, but the stuff wasn't exactly flying off the shelves.

The wares are never crowded or piled and the staff handles them with hands covered in white plastic gloves.

Those who were able to finish making the boxes bid more than twice as much for their wares as those who did not.

Those companies, and other similar services, say their wares prevent the movies from being uploaded to torrent trackers.

One division owns the bricks and mortar where companies display their wares.

Before the dotcom boom, geeks weren't called upon to hawk their wares.

Their wares have a plain usefulness that the frothier bits of finance cannot match.

If you're a professional dealer and want to make sure your wares are worthy, fancier services are available.

Production companies began aggressively hawking their wares overseas.

Man, posing as someone interested in purchasing his wares.

Rigorous training and technology ensure that operators at call-centres also have details of wares at their fingertips.

But many hardware-makers may suffer as well, since their wares will become even more of a commodity than they are today.

Hawkers laying their wares on pavements have proliferated.

Broadcast networks and some local newspapers provide their wares free and charge advertisers for access to consumers.

Its traditional wares are ill-suited for the new frontier.

Religious gurus and groups are getting ever slicker at marketing their wares.

The police may be sure that they are dealing, but their wares will be hidden under a rock.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

adjective

watchful, wary, or cautious.

aware; conscious.

verb (used with object)

to beware of (usually used in the imperative).

Origin:
before 900; Middle English (adj. and v.); Old English wær (adj.); cognate with German gewahr aware, Old Norse varr

verb (used with object), wared, war·ing. Scot. and North England.

to spend; expend.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Old Norse verja to spend, invest

noun Scot. and North England.

the first season in the year; spring.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English < Old Norse vār spring; perhaps akin to Latin vēr (see vernal), Greek éar spring

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wares (wɛəz)

—*pl n*
1.	articles of manufacture considered as being for sale
2.	any talent or asset regarded as a commercial or saleable commodity
3.	(Caribbean) earthenware

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ware

"to take heed of, beware," O.E. warian "to guard against," from P.Gmc. *warojan, from *waro- "to guard, watch" (cf. O.Fris. waria, O.N. vara); related to O.E. wær "aware" (see wary).

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"So it is with books, for the most part: they work no redemption on us. The bookseller might certainly know that his customers are in no respect better for the purchase and consumption of his wares. The volume is dear at a dollar, and after to reading to weariness the lettered backs, we leave the shop with a sigh, and learn, as I did without surprise of a surly bank director, that in bank parlors they estimate all stocks of this kind as rubbish."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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