the act, process or an instance of protecting, guarding or saving.

a kind of necklace.

a thread made by twisting or intertwining several strings.

movement of the body or limbs used as a rhetorical or dramatic device to express one's thought or feeling.

a proper or orderly arrangement.

a strategic arrangement of troops.

a particular kind in hunting wild animals.

any of the the notched extremities of a bow.

(gen.) the extreme end of anything.

a single long cloth used to cover the privy parts, as by a male ascetic or, poor men in warm climates; a loin cloth.

the thick, stringy mucus secreted by the mucous glands of the respiratory tract and discharged from the throat, as during a cold; phlegm.

the act of selling; exchange of property of any kind or of services, for an agreed sum of money or other valuable consideration; a sale.

any of various mainly long-tailed agile tree-dwelling primates of the families Cebidae, Callithricidae, and Cercopithecidae; a monkey.

a mischievous person, esp. a child.

a man who loves (a woman); a lover.