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A.Word.A.Day--vaward Do you wish to receive A.Word.A.Day in your mailbox every day? Subscribe here. It's free. Pronunciation: WAV or RealAudio vaward (VAH-ward, VOU-ord) noun Vanguard. [Middle English, variant of va(u)mwarde, vantward, aphetic for avantward from Anglo-French avantwarde, equivalent to avant + warde from Old English weard ward.] "If Sir John Fastolfe had not play'd the coward: He, being in the vaward, placed behind With purpose to relieve and follow them, Cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke." William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part I: Act I, Scene I. This week's theme: words that sprout other words when beheaded. X-Bonus Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells. -Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]

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