[f. WARD v.1 + -ED1.]
† 1. Detained ‘in ward,’ imprisoned. Sc. Obs.
c. 1610. J. Forbes, Certain Rec. (Wodrow Soc.), II. viii. 455. The guard came … with a warrand to receive the warded ministers, and convoy them to the Councell.
2. Furnished with a protective padding; guarded.
1853. Dickens, Bleak Ho., i. Running their goat-hair and horse-hair warded heads against walls of words.
