guarded

Etymology

verb

1. simple past and past participle of guard

adj

1. Cautious; restrained.
2. Watched over; supervised.
3. (medicine, often euphemistic) When the practitioner formulating the opinion does not have enough information to know, or to foretell, what the outcome may be.
   guarded prognosis
4. (especially heraldry) Having a guard, e.g. a crossguard (on a sword), a faceguard (on a helmet), or a hatguard (on a chapeau).
   On the helmet , which is of gold, affrontee, guarded with perpendicular bars, and adorned with a mantled gules, doubled, or, is this crest. 1819, Thomas George Lomax, A Short Account of the City and Close of Lichfield: To which is Added A Short Account of the Cathedral ..., page 31
   On a chapeau gules, guarded ermine, a gurnet (fish) urinant proper. 1866, John Edwin Cussans, The Grammar of Heraldry, page 84
   Sable, an eagle displayed argent, crowned with an electoral bonnet gules, guarded argent (or ermine). 1893, Notes and Queries, page 129
   Or, three swords in fess palewise azure, guarded vert, hilted gules; unidentified. Fouquet suggests that this is the device of the fictional king of Monteini, but notes that it might be the device of the fictional king of Bicheny. 2015 12, Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson, Arthurian Literature XXXII, Boydell & Brewer, page 160