WARE, w[=a]r, in _B._ _pa.t._ of wear.
WARELESS, w[=a]r'les, _adj._ (_Spens._) unwary, incautious: unperceived.
WARELY, w[=a]r'li, _adv._ (_Spens._) warily.
WARHABLE, wawr'a-bl, _adj._ (_Spens._) fit for war.
WARIATED, w[=a]'ri-[=a]-ted, _adj._ (_her._) varriated.
WARILY, WARINESS, WAREFUL, &c. See WARY.
WARIMENT, w[=a]r'i-ment, _n._ (_Spens._) wariness.
WARISON, WARRISON, war'i-son, _n._ (_obs._) healing: reward--used by Scott
erroneously for a note of assault. [O. Fr.,--_warir_, to guard.]
WARK, wawrk, _n._ (_Spens._) work.
WARLOCK, wawr'lok, _n._ a sorcerer, a wizard.--_n._ WAR'LOCKRY, sorcery.
[A.S. _w['æ]rloga_, a breaker of an agreement--_w['æ]r_, a compact,
_leógan_, to lie.]
WARM, wawrm, _adj._ having moderate heat, hot: subject to heat: zealous:
easily excited: violent: enthusiastic: intimate, close: fresh, of a scent:
(_coll._) comfortable, well-off: (_coll._) indelicate.--_v.t._ to make
warm: to interest: to excite: (_coll._) to beat.--_v.i._ to become warm or
ardent.--_n._ (_coll._) a heating.--_adj._ WARM'-BLOOD'ED, having warm
blood: generous, passionate.--_n._ WAR'MER.--_adj._ WARM'-HEART'ED, having
warm affections: affectionate: hearty.--_ns._ WARM'-HEART'EDNESS; WAR'MING,
act of warming: (_slang_) a beating; WAR'MING-PAN, a covered pan, with a
long handle, for holding live-coals to warm a bed: a person put into a
situation to hold it till another is able to take it.--_adv._
WARM'LY.--_ns._ WARM'NESS; WARMTH, moderate heat: geniality: earnestness,
moderate or growing anger: the bright effect of warm colours.--WARM COLOURS
(_paint._), colours of which the basis is yellow or red. [A.S. _wearm_;
Ger. _warm_.]
WARN, wawrn, _v.t._ to make wary or aware: to put on ward or guard: to give
notice of danger: to caution against: to admonish: (_Spens._) to
defend.--_ns._ WAR'NER; WAR'NING, caution against danger, &c.: admonition:
previous notice: notice to quit, notice of the termination of an
engagement, &c.: summons, call.--_adj._ of threatening aspect.--_adv._
WAR'NINGLY. [A.S. _warnian_; cf. Ice. _varna_, to warn, forbid, Ger.
_warnen_; allied to _ward_, _beware_, _wary_.]
WARP, wawrp, _v.t._ to turn: to twist out of shape: to turn from the right
course: to pervert: to move a vessel by hauling on warps or ropes attached
to buoys, other ships, anchors, &c.: to improve land by distributing on it,
by means of embankments, canals, flood-gates, &c., the alluvial mud brought
down by rivers: (_rare_) to change.--_v.i._ to be twisted out of a straight
direction: to bend: to swerve: to move with a bending motion.--_n._
alluvial sediment: the threads stretched out lengthwise in a loom to be
crossed by a woof: a rope used in towing.--_adj._ WARPED, twisted by
shrinking: perverted.--_ns._ WAR'PER; WAR'PING; WAR'PING-BANK, a bank to
retain water in the process of warping land; WAR'PING-HOOK, a ropemakers'
hook used in twisting rope-yarns; WAR'PING-POST, a post in a rope-walk,
used in warping rope-yarn. [A.S. _weorpan_, _werpan_; Ger. _werfen_, to
cast; conn. with Ice. _varpa_, to throw--_varp_, a casting, a throw with a
net.]
WARRAGAL, war'a-gal, _n._ the Australian dingo: an Australian horse run
wild.--Also WAR'RI-GAL.
WARRANT, wor'ant, _v.t._ to guarantee or make secure: to give assurance
against harm to: to authorise: to maintain: to assure.--_n._ that which
warrants or authorises: a commission giving authority: a writ for arresting
a person or for carrying a judgment into execution: security: in the army
and navy, a writ or authority inferior to a commission: in coal-mining,
under-clay.--_n._ WARR'ANDICE (_Scot._), warranty, a clause in a deed by
which the grantor binds himself to make good to the grantee the right
conveyed.--_adj._ WARR'ANTABLE, authorised by warrant or right:
justifiable: of sufficient age to be hunted.--_n._
WARR'ANTABLENESS.--_adv._ WARR'ANTABLY.--_adj._ WARR'ANTED.--_ns._
WARR'ANTEE, one to whom warrant is given; WARR'ANTER, -OR, one who
warrants; WARR'ANTING; WARR'ANTISE (_Shak._), warrant, authority: promise;
WARR'ANT-OFF'ICER, in the army and navy, an officer holding a warrant,
being the highest rank open to seamen and ordinary soldiers under ordinary
circumstances; WARR'ANTY, a legal warrant or deed of security: a guarantee:
authority.--WARRANT OF ARREST, ATTACHMENT, a writ authorising the arrest of
a person or the seizure of property.--DISTRESS WARRANT, warrant authorising
distraining of goods; GENERAL WARRANT, a warrant directed against suspected
persons generally; GENERAL WARRANTY, a warranty against the claims of all
and every person; JUSTICE'S WARRANT, warrant of a justice of the peace to
arrest a suspected criminal; SPECIAL WARRANTY, warrant against the claims
of a particular person. [O. Fr. _warantir_ (Fr. _garantir_), perh. conn.
with _warir_, to defend--Old High Ger. _warjan_, _werjan_.]
WARRAY, wawr'[=a], _v.t._ (_Spens._) to make war upon.
WARRE, wor, _adj._ (_Spens._) worse.
WARREN, wor'en, _n._ a piece of ground kept for breeding game or rabbits:
(_law_) a right of enclosure (extending to hares, rabbits, partridges, &c.)
by prescription or grant from the Crown.--_n._ WARR'ENER, the keeper of a
warren. [O. Fr. _warenne_ (Fr. _garenne_)--_warir_, to defend.]
WART, wawrt, _n._ a small, hard excrescence on the skin: a protuberance on
trees.--_adj._ WART'ED.--_n._ WART'-HOG, a kind of hog found in Africa,
having a very large head and the cheeks furnished with large wart-like
excrescences.--_adj._ WART'LESS.--_ns._ WART'WEED, the sun-spurge;
WART'WORT, a common name for certain lichens having a warty thallus: the
wart-cress or swine-cress, the cud-weed.--_adj._ WART'Y, like a wart:
overgrown with warts. [A.S. _wearte_; Ger. _warze_; prob. allied to L.
_verruca_.]
WARTH, wawrth, _n._ (_prov._) a ford.
WARY, w[=a]'ri, _adj._ warding or guarding against deception, &c.:
cautious.--_adj._ WARE'FUL, careful.--_n._ WARE'FULNESS.--_adv._
W[=A]'RILY.--_n._ W[=A]'RINESS. [Longer form of _ware_ (2). See AWARE.]
WAS, woz, used as _pa.t._ of _be_. [A.S. _wæs_, _w['æ]re_--_wesan_, to
remain, be; Goth. _wisan_, pa.t. _was_, to remain; Ice. _vera_, pa.t.
_var_.]
WASE, w[=a]z, _n._ (_prov._) a wisp of hay, straw, &c.: a pad on the head
to ease the pressure of a burden.
WASE-GOOSE. See WAYGOOSE.
WASH, wosh, _v.t._ to cleanse with water: to overflow: to waste away by the
action of water: to cover with a thin coat of metal or paint: in mining, to
separate from earth by means of water.--_v.i._ to cleanse one's self, to
cleanse clothes with water: to stand water, of clothes: (_coll._) to stand
the test.--_n._ a washing: the break of waves on the shore: the rough water
left behind by a moving vessel: the shallow part of a river or arm of the
sea: a marsh or fen: alluvial matter: waste liquor, refuse of food, &c.:
that with which anything is washed: a lotion: a thin coat of paint, metal,
&c.: (_slang_) a fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities
between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is at once the buyer
and the seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his
clients.--_adj._ WASH'ABLE.--_ns._ WASH'-BALL, a ball of toilet-soap;
WASH'-B[=A]'SIN, -BOWL, WASH'HAND B[=A]'SIN, a bowl in which to wash face
and hands; WASH'-BOARD, a corrugated board for rubbing clothes on in
washing: a thin plank placed on a boat's gunwale to prevent the sea from
breaking over: a board round the bottom of the walls of a room;
WASH'-BOTT'LE, a bottle used by chemists for washing chemical preparations
and instruments; WASH'-CLOTH, a piece of cloth used in washing; WASH'-DIRT,
earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing; WASH'ER, one who washes: a
flat ring of iron or leather between the nave of a wheel and the linch-pin,
under the head of a screw, &c.--v.t to lift with washers; WASH'ERMAN, a man
who washes clothes, esp. for hire:--_fem._ WASH'ERWOMAN; WASH'-GILD'ING, a
gilding made with an amalgam of gold from which the mercury is driven off
by heat, leaving a coating of gold; WASH'-HOUSE, WASH'ING-HOUSE, a house
for washing clothes in; WASH'INESS, state of being watery, weakness,
worthlessness; WASH'ING, the act of cleansing by water: the clothes washed,
esp. at one time: what is washed; WAS'HING-MACHINE', a machine for washing
clothes; WASH'ING-POW'DER, a powdered preparation used in washing clothes;
WASH'ING-UP, WASH'-UP, cleaning up; WASH'-LEATH'ER, split sheepskin
prepared with oil in imitation of chamois, and used for household purposes:
buff leather for regimental belts.--_adj._ WASH'-OFF, that will not stand
washing.--_ns._ WASH'-OUT, an erosion of earth by the action of water, the
hole made by such; WASH'-POT, a vessel for washing; WASH'-STAND, WASH'HAND
STAND, a piece of furniture for holding ewer, basin, and other requisites
for washing a person; WASH'-TUB, a tub for washing clothes.--_adj._ WASH'Y,
watery, moist: thin, feeble.--_n._ RAIN'-WASH, a washing away by the force
of rain: a deposit formed by rain. [A.S. _wascan_; Ice. _vaska_, Ger.
_waschen_.]
WASHINGTONIA, wosh-ing-t[=o]'ni-a, _n._ a Californian genus of palms,
valued for ornament in lawns--from George _Washington_ (1732-99).
WASP, wosp, _n._ a popular name for Hymenopterous insects belonging to the
family _Vespidæ_, or to closely related families--(Wasps are generally more
slender and much less hairy than bees, and their stinging organ--an
ovipositor--resembles that of bees in structure and mode of action): a
petulant and spiteful person.--_adjs._ WAS'PISH, like a wasp: having a
slender waist like a wasp: quick to resent an affront; WAS'PISH-HEAD'ED
(_Shak._), passionate.--_adv._ WAS'PISHLY.--_n._ WAS'PISHNESS.--_adjs._
WASP'-TONGUED (_Shak._), biting in tongue, shrewish; WASP'-WAIST'ED, very
slender waisted, laced tightly; WAS'PY, waspish. [A.S. _wæsp_, _wæps_; Ger.
_wespe_, L. _vespa_.]
WASSAIL, wos'[=a]l, _n._ the salutation uttered in drinking a person's
health, a festive occasion: a drunken bout: a liquor consisting of ale with
roasted apples, sugar, nutmeg, and toast, once much used on festive
occasions.--_v.i._ to hold a wassail or merry drinking-meeting: to drink to
the health of.--_ns._ WASS'AIL-BOUT, a carouse; WASS'AIL-BOWL, -CUP, a cup
from which healths were drunk; WASS'AILER, one who wassails or drinks
wassail: a reveller. [A.S. _wes hál_, 'may you be in health,' the
salutation used in pledging another, which the Normans transferred to mean
'a carousal.']
WASSERMAN, wos'[.e]r-man, _n._ (_Spens._) a sea-monster, shaped like a man.
[Ger. _wasser_, water, _mann_, man.]
WAST, wost, _pa.t._ 2d pers. sing. of the verb _be_.
WASTE, w[=a]st, _adj._ empty, desert: desolate: useless, vain: stripped:
lying unused: unproductive.--_v.t._ to lay waste or make desolate: to
destroy: to wear out gradually: to squander: to diminish: to
impair.--_v.i._ to be diminished: to dwindle: to be consumed.--_n._ act of
wasting: useless expenditure: superfluous material, stuff left over: loss:
destruction: that which is wasted or waste: uncultivated country: desert:
refuse, as of coal, &c.: decay, decline: (_law_) natural but permanent
injury to the inheritance.--_ns._ W[=A]S'TAGE, loss by use, natural decay;
WASTE'-BAS'KET, WASTE'PAPER-BAS'KET, a basket for holding useless scraps of
paper; WASTE'-BOOK, a book in which merchants make entries of transactions
in order as they occur, and for a temporary purpose.--_adj._ WASTE'FUL,
full of waste: destructive: lavish: (_Spens._) desolate.--_adv._
WASTE'FULLY.--_ns._ WASTE'FULNESS; WASTE'-GATE, a gate for discharging
surplus water from a dam, &c.; W[=A]S'TEN (_Spens._), a desert; WASTE'NESS
(_B._), devastation; WASTE'-PIPE, a pipe for carrying off waste or surplus
water; W[=A]S'TER, one who or that which wastes: a spendthrift: a
destroyer: an article spoilt in the making.--_adj._ W[=A]S'TING,
devastating: enfeebling--(WASTING INVESTMENTS, stocks redeemable on a
certain date at a fixed price, for which a premium above the redemption
price is paid).--_ns._ W[=A]S'TING, devastation; W[=A]S'TREL, refuse:
anything neglected, a neglected child: (_dial._) a profligate; W[=A]S'TRY
(_Scot._), prodigality.--_adj._ improvident.--WASTE LANDS, uncultivated and
unprofitable tracts in populous and cultivated countries; WASTE TIME, to
employ time unprofitably or not at all.--RUN TO WASTE, to become incapable
or useless.--UTILISATION OF WASTE PRODUCTS, the putting to other use of
such material as is rendered either wholly or partially useless in the
manufacture of articles and products--e.g. _waste-silk_ is now a valuable
raw material for a large spun-silk industry. [O. Fr. _wast_, _gaste_--L.
_vastus_, waste; cf. A.S. _wéste_, Ger. _wüst_, desolate.]
WASTEL-BREAD, w[=a]s'tel-bred, _n._ bread made from the finest of the
flour. [O. Fr. _wastel_, pastry--Old High Ger. _wastel_, a cake, and
_bread_.]
WASTER, w[=a]s't[.e]r, _n._ a wooden sword for practising fencing with:
(_Scot._) a leister.--PLAY AT WASTERS, to practise fencing. [Ety. dub.]
WAT, wot, _n._ (_Shak._) a hare.