Were

1. n. A fine for slaying a man; the money value set upon a man’s life; weregild.
2. v. t. & i. To wear. See 3d Wear.
3. n. A weir. See Weir.
4. v. t. To guard; to protect.
5. The imperfect indicative plural, and imperfect subjunctive singular and plural, of the verb be. See Be.
6. n. A man.

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.