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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. On guard; watchful: taught to be wary of strangers.
  2. adj. Characterized by caution: a wary glance at the black clouds.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; watchful; on the alert against surprise or danger; ever on one's guard.
  2. Guarded; careful as to doing or not doing something; chary.
  3. Characterized by caution; guarded.
  4. Prudent; circumspect; wise.
  5. Synonyms Careful, circumspect, etc. See list under cautious.
  6. Same as warry.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful.
  2. adj. Characterized by caution; guarded; careful.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful.
  2. adj. Characterized by caution; guarded; careful.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. marked by keen caution and watchful prudence
  2. adj. openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

Etymologies

  1. From the adjective ware +‎ -y. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English ware, from Old English wær; see wer-3 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • hernesheir To lay eggs (north of England). Cf. warp.
    To curse or execrate (Lancashire). May 17, 2011

  • agustinolvera "Charlies face was suddenly wary". Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer page10 Oct 4, 2010

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