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1[wair]
noun
1.
Usually, wares.
a.
articles of merchandise or manufacture; goods: a peddler selling his wares.
b.
any intangible items, as services or products of artistic or intellectual creativity, that are salable: an actor advertising his wares.
2.
a specified kind or class of merchandise or of manufactured article (usually used in combination): silverware; glassware.
3.
pottery, or a particular kind of pottery: delft ware.
4.
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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a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
Example Sentences
  • 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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ware

2[wair] adjective, verb, wared, war·ing. Archaic.
adjective
1.
watchful, wary, or cautious.
2.
aware; conscious.
verb (used with object)
3.
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

ware

3[wair]
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

ware

4[wair]
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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