Beware

1. v. t. To avoid; to take care of; to have a care for.
2. v. i. To be on one’s guard; to be cautious; to take care; — commonly followed by of or lest before the thing that is to be avoided.
3. v. i. To have a special regard; to heed.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.