Usually, wares. articles of merchandise or manufacture; goods: a peddler selling his wares. any intangible items, as services or products of artistic or intellectual creativity, that are salable: an actor advertising his wares.

a specified kind or class of merchandise or of manufactured article (usually used in combination): silverware; glassware. See also -ware.

pottery, or a particular kind of pottery: delft ware.

Archaeology. a group of ceramic types classified according to paste and texture, surface modification, as burnish or glaze, and decorative motifs rather than shape and color.

watchful, wary, or cautious.