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Care keeps his watch in every old man's
eye,

And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

Shak.

2. Charge, oversight, or management,
implying responsibility for safety and prosperity.

The care of all the churches.

2 Cor. xi. 28.

Him thy care must be to find.

Milton.

Perplexed with a thousand cares.

Shak.

3. Attention or heed; caution; regard;
heedfulness; watchfulness; as, take care; have a
care.

I thank thee for thy care and honest
pains.

Shak.

4. The object of watchful attention or
anxiety.

Right sorrowfully mourning her bereaved
cares.

Spenser.

Syn. -- Anxiety; solicitude; concern; caution; regard;
management; direction; oversight. -- Care, Anxiety,
Solicitude, Concern. These words express mental
pain in different degress. Care belongs primarily to the
intellect, and becomes painful from overburdened thought.
Anxiety denotes a state of distressing uneasiness fron the
dread of evil.


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