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beware(dictionary)
Plus tick(money)
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tick(7)(dictionary)
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TICK, contracts (law) and beware (iou)


TICK, contracts (law)


TICK, contracts. Credit; as, if a servant usually buy for the master upon tick, and the servant buy something without the master' s order, yet, if the tick, and the servant buy something without the master' s order, yet, if the master were trusted by the trader, he is liable. 1 Show. 95; 3 Keb. 625; 10 master were trusted by the trader, he is liable. 1 Show. 95; 3 Keb. 625; 10 Mod. 111; 3 Esp. R. 214; 4 Esp. R. 174. Mod. 111; 3 Esp. R. 214; 4 Esp. R. 174.

beware (iou)



beware verb. Orig. & now again only in imper. & inf. ME.
[Imper. & inf. be ware treated as one word: cf. BEGONE verb1.]
verb intrans. & trans. Be cautious; take heed (of or of a danger etc.; lest, how, that..not). ME.
Shakespeare Macbeth Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff. Milton I had bewar'd if I had foreseen. W. Morris Beware lest..Thou tell'st the story of thy love unseen. H. Allen Someone who..he felt was an enemy; a being to beware of.
verb intrans. & trans. Take care (of or of, that, to do); take notice of. LME-M19.
Shakespeare 1 Henry VI Priest, beware your beard; I mean to tug it. Bible (AV): Exodus 23:21 Behold, I send an Angel before thee...Beware of him, and obey his voice. R. W. Emerson We beware to ask only for high things.
verb intrans. Take warning by. E16-E17.
W. Camden It is good to beware by Other mens harmes.
verb trans. Make cautious. L16-E18.
Dryden Once warn'd is well bewar'd.