(uncountable, usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
1923, John Lord,Capital and steam-power, 1750–1800[3]:
Astbury was the more successful and made frequent journeys to London, where he sold hisware and obtained further orders.
2002 March 28, “Kenya National Assembly Official Record”, inparliamentary debates:
On Sunday, a Mr. Stephen Muturi Kamau, aged 20 years, was shot dead at Dandora while he was selling hisware. This is a well known hawker. He has been hawking hisware in Dandora.
But here thou canst not handle aught, neither make the folkware of thee, not though thou shout thy throat hoarse. For thou and I walk here impalpable and invisible, as it were two dreams walking.
1549 April 1 (Gregorian calendar), Hughe Latymer [i.e.,Hugh Latimer],Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[27 Sermons Preached by the Ryght Reuerende Father in God and Constant Matir of Iesus Christe, Maister Hugh Latimer,[…].] The Thyrde Sermon of Maister Hughe Latymer whyche He Preached before the Kynge [Edward VI], wythin Hys Graces Palayce at Westminster, the XXII. Daye of Marche.”, inCertayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer,[…], London:[…]John Day,[…], published1562,→OCLC,folio 39, verso:
He isware inough; he is wilye, and circumſpect for ſtirring vp any ſedition.
1864, Thomas Oswald Cockayne,Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England, page385:
Be he quite wary, as wood isware of fire, as thigh of bramble or of thistle, he, who may be thinking to mislead these beeves or to mispossess this cattle.
1844, Henry Stephens,The book of the farm, page1238:
On many of the farms in East Lothian, from 100 to 120 Imperial acres are annually manured with sea-ware; and when I mention that 30 double-cart loads are spread on 1 acre, you may conceive the labour incurred in carting from 3000 to 3600 loads during a short season; for it is only in winter that theware is cast ashore by storms,[…]
1861 April 25, “William Baird, Appellant, v. William Ranken Fortune, Respondent”, inThe Scottish Jurist: Being Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland, and in the House of Lords on Appeal from Scotland, page437:
The said farm, having been possessed[…] in the deed of 12th July 1794, with the privilege of takingware from the sea-shore for the use of the farm, and having been let by them to a tenant in 1804, with "liberty of the droven sea-ware, along with the other tenants of the Elie barony, for manuring the farm,"[…]
1896, Charles James Longman,Longman's Magazine, page34:
Eachware-strand, or beach where drift-weed comes to land, is set apart for a certain number of tenants on the estate to which it belongs, and each 'brook ofware' as it comes ashore is divided among these tenants, usually in proportion to their rents.
1684,Historical Notices of Scotish Affairs, Selected from the Manuscripts of John Lauder of Fountainhall, Bart., One of the Senators of the College of Justice, volumessecond (1683–1688), Edinburgh, published1848, page533:
Againſt this therware many objections made by the creditors, viz., thatquoad the 9000 lƀ. a year contained in his contract of marriage, theyware præferable, being præferable and prior creditors, and ſo he was ſucceſſortitulo lucrativo poſt contractum debitum; and as to the 6000 lƀ. per annum added, 1o. before that letter they had ajus quæſitum by the ſignitor; 2do. They had rights præferable.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition ofWebster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for“ware”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.)
^Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2016)The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University,→ISBN, pages582-3
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page84
