Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Prudent; careful; considerate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Careful; wary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
careful ,wary
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