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vaward Obs. exc. arch.
Forms: α. 4– vaward (6 va-ward), 5–6 vawarde. β. Sc. 5 waward(e, waywarde, 5–6 wawart. γ. 5 vauwarde, fauward, 6–7 vauward; 5–6 vawe-, 6 vawwarde, 6, 8 vawward. δ. 5 wowarde, 5–6 vowarde, 6–7 voward.
[Reduced form of vaumward vamward. See vant- prefix.]
1. Mil. = vanguard 1.
α1375Barbour Bruce viii. 48 Thai saw in battale cum arayit The vaward with baner displayit. a1400–50Alexander 3617 Þe men out of Medy he mas..To enverom alle þe vaward of all þe vile yndes. c1430Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 3554 Abel, his son bold and hard, Bare the baner in the vaward. c1471Arriv. K. Edw. IV (Camden) 29 His vawarde so sore oppressyd them, with shott of arrows, that they gave them right-a-sharpe shwre. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. V, 48 Beside this, he appoincted a vawarde, of the which he made capitayne Edward duke of Yorke. 1579Digges Stratiot. 132 To give their attendance at the lodging of their Chiefes of the Armie, whether it be of the Battaile, or Vawarde. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. ii. 178 The English were the first that entered with great vigour upon the front and vaward. 1640Habington Edw. IV, 81 The Vaward commanded by the Duke of Glocester, the Rere by the Lord Hastings. [1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Vaward, an obsolete Word for Van-Guard.] 1828Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) I. 116 He intrusted the command of the vaward, or centre, to the Earl of Moray. 1846Torrens Rem. Milit. Hist. 148 The disposition of troops seems..to have been a vaward, or advance, a centre, and rear.
β1375Barbour Bruce xii. 340 And thai haf tald thair reboyting, Thai of the waward. c1425Wyntoun Cron. vi. xix. 2261 He askyt at þe kynge Til haf þe wawarde [v.r. wawart] of his batale. 1500–20[see b].
γc1400Sege Jerus. 430 Þe fauward Titus toke,..With six þousand soudiours. c1440Bone Florence 604 The vawewarde and the myddyll soone, And the rere-warde owte of Rome The grete oost removyd and yode. 1529Rastell Pastyme (1811) 222 Havinge the rule of the Frenche kynges vawewarde. 1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) I. 127 Sebastian..was Lieue tenant general of the Vawward of Diocletian the emperour. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 39 The Vauward of his armie was conducted by Iohn and Andronicus. 1791Cowper Iliad viii. 119 Then, Diomede, unaided as he was, Rush'd ardent to the vaw-ward.
γ1430–40Lydg. Bochas ix. xxviii, In his passage to gouerne the wowarde. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) VII. 241 In the vowarde of whom were foote men with bawes. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 179 Whiche is more fered of the feendes than ony vowarde of a batayle. 1543St. Papers Hen. VIII (1849) IX. 393 The other galees of thEmperour appoynted for the vowarde. 1577Holinshed Chron. II. 1593/1 Forthwith the Lord Lieutenant sent to the vowarde, commaunding that they shoulde marche towarde the towne. 1631Chapman Cæsar & Pompey Plays 1873 III. 162 The voward of the foe Is ranged already.
b. In fig. context.
1401Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 57 It ar ȝe that stonden bifore, in Anticristis vauwarde. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xlii. 58 Than to battell thai war arreyit all, And ay the wawart kepit Thocht. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. (1634) 10 And therefore he doubteth not to set their mouthes in the vaward, as being strongly armed to subdue their madnesse. a1586Sidney Arcadia i. viii. (1622) 30 Her haire being laide at the full length downe her backe, bare shew as if the voward fayled, yet that would conquer.
c. fig. The forefront; the early part.
In later use only as an echo of Shakespeare.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, i. ii. 200 We that are in the vaward of our youth. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 22 The vaward or subburbes of my narration. 1827Scott Jrnl. I. 378 She is not in the vaward of youth. ― Chron. Canongate vi, Those who write themselves in the vaward of youth. 1884A. Birrell Obiter Dicta Ser. i. 208 He..states that he and his accomplices..are in the vaward of their youth.
2. attrib. (Cf. vanward a.)
1808Scott Marm. vi. xxiv, Myself will rule this central host,..My sons command the vaward post. Ibid. xxxiii, Where's now their victor vaward wing? 1814― Ld. of Isles vi. xii, To centre of the vaward-line Fitz-Louis guided Amadine. |