ware
    n 1: articles of the same kind or material; usually used in
         combination: `silverware', `software'
    2: commodities offered for sale; "good business depends on
       having good merchandise"; "that store offers a variety of
       products" [syn: merchandise, ware, product]
    v 1: spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not" [syn: consume,
         squander, waste, ware]

Ware \Ware\, n. [AS. waru caution.]
   The state of being ware or aware; heed. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
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Ware \Ware\, v. t. [As. warian.]
   To make ware; to warn; to take heed of; to beware of; to
   guard against. "Ware that I say." --Chaucer.
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         God . . . ware you for the sin of avarice. --Chaucer.
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         Then ware a rising tempest on the main.  --Dryden.
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Ware \Ware\, obs. imp. of Wear.
   Wore.
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Ware \Ware\, v. t. (Naut.)
   To wear, or veer. See Wear.
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Ware \Ware\, n. [AS. w[=a]r.] (Bot.)
   Seaweed. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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   Ware goose (Zool.), the brant; -- so called because it
      feeds on ware, or seaweed. [Prov. Eng.]
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Ware \Ware\, n. [OE. ware, AS. waru; akin to D. waar, G. waare,
   Icel. & Sw. vara, Dan. vare; and probably to E. worth, a. See
   Worth, a.]
   Articles of merchandise; the sum of articles of a particular
   kind or class; style or class of manufactures; especially, in
   the plural, goods; commodities; merchandise. "Retails his
   wares at wakes." --Shak. "To chaffer with them and eke to
   sell them their ware." --Chaucer.
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         It the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on
         the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of
         them on the Sabbath, or on the holy day. --Neh. x. 31.
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   Note: Although originally and properly a collective noun, it
         admits of a plural form, when articles of merchandise
         of different kinds are meant. It is often used in
         composition; as in hardware, glassware, tinware, etc.
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Ware \Ware\, a. [OE. war, AS. w[ae]r. [root]142. See Wary.]
   A ware; taking notice; hence, wary; cautious; on one's guard.
   See Beware. [Obs.]
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         She was ware and knew it bet [better] than he.
                                                  --Chaucer.
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         Of whom be thou ware also.               --2. Tim. iv.
                                                  15.
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         He is ware enough; he is wily and circumspect for
         stirring up any sedition.                --Latimer.
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         The only good that grows of passed fear
         Is to be wise, and ware of like again.   --Spenser.
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Ware -- U.S. County in Georgia
   Population (2000):    35483
   Housing Units (2000): 15831
   Land area (2000):     902.293304 sq. miles (2336.928831 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    4.018689 sq. miles (10.408357 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    906.311993 sq. miles (2347.337188 sq. km)
   Located within:       Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
   Location:             31.205650 N, 82.412807 W
   Headwords:
    Ware
    Ware, GA
    Ware County
    Ware County, GA

Ware, MA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Massachusetts
   Population (2000):    6174
   Housing Units (2000): 2906
   Land area (2000):     6.174500 sq. miles (15.991881 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.136136 sq. miles (0.352591 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    6.310636 sq. miles (16.344472 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            72845
   Located within:       Massachusetts (MA), FIPS 25
   Location:             42.259965 N, 72.245841 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     01082
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Ware, MA
    Ware