Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter W - Page 7

Warm (a.) To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment.

Warm (a.) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven.

Warm (v. i.) To become warm, or moderately heated; as, the earth soon warms in a clear day summer.

Warm (v. i.) To become ardent or animated; as, the speake/ warms as he proceeds.

Warm (n.) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a warming; a heating.

Warm-blooded (a.) Having warm blood; -- applied especially to those animals, as birds and mammals, which have warm blood, or, more properly, the power of maintaining a nearly uniform temperature whatever the temperature of the surrounding air. See Homoiothermal.

Warmer (n.) One who, or that which, warms.

Warmful (a.) Abounding in capacity to warm; giving warmth; as, a warmful garment.

Warm-hearted (a.) Having strong affection; cordial; sincere; hearty; sympathetic.

Warming () a. & n. from Warm, v.

Warmly (adv.) In a warm manner; ardently.

Warmness (n.) Warmth.

Warmonger (n.) One who makes ar a trade or business; a mercenary.

Warmouth (n.) An American freshwater bream, or sunfish (Chaenobryttus gulosus); -- called also red-eyed bream.

Warmth (n.) The quality or state of being warm; gentle heat; as, the warmth of the sun; the warmth of the blood; vital warmth.

Warmth (n.) A state of lively and excited interest; zeal; ardor; fervor; passion; enthusiasm; earnestness; as, the warmth of love or piety; he replied with much warmth.

Warmth (n.) The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color.

Warmthless (a.) Being without warmth; not communicating warmth; cold.

Warn (v. t.) To refuse.

Warned (imp. & p. p.) of Warn

Warning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Warn

Warn (v. t.) To make ware or aware; to give previous information to; to give notice to; to notify; to admonish; hence, to notify or summon by authority; as, to warn a town meeting; to warn a tenant to quit a house.

Warn (v. t.) To give notice to, of approaching or probable danger or evil; to caution against anything that may prove injurious.

Warn (v. t.) To ward off.

Warner (n.) One who warns; an admonisher.

Warner (n.) A warrener.

Warning (a.) Giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing; as, a warning voice.

Warning (n.) Previous notice.

Warning (n.) Caution against danger, or against faults or evil practices which incur danger; admonition; monition.

Warningly (adv.) In a warning manner.

Warnstore (v. t.) To furnish.

Warped (imp. & p. p.) of Warp

Warping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Warp

Warp (v. t.) To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter.

Warp (v. t.) To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise.

Warp (v. t.) To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert.

Warp (v. t.) To weave; to fabricate.

Warp (v. t.) To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object.

Warp (v. t.) To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.

Warp (v. t.) To let the tide or other water in upon (lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance.

Warp (v. t.) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.

Warp (v. t.) To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.

Warp (v. i.) To turn, twist, or be twisted out of shape; esp., to be twisted or bent out of a flat plane; as, a board warps in seasoning or shrinking.

Warp (v. i.) to turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; to deviate; to swerve.

Warp (v. i.) To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects.

Warp (v. i.) To cast the young prematurely; to slink; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.

Warp (v. i.) To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.

Warp (v.) The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof.

Warp (v.) A rope used in hauling or moving a vessel, usually with one end attached to an anchor, a post, or other fixed object; a towing line; a warping hawser.

Warp (v.) A slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed.

Warp (v.) A premature casting of young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.

Warp (v.) Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast, n., 17.

Warp (v.) The state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board.

Warpage (n.) The act of warping; also, a charge per ton made on shipping in some harbors.

Warpath (n.) The route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlike expedition.

Warper (n.) One who, or that which, warps or twists out of shape.

Warper (n.) One who, or that which, forms yarn or thread into warps or webs for the loom.

Warping (n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, warps.

Warping (n.) The art or occupation of preparing warp or webs for the weaver.

Warproof (n.) Valor tried by war.

Warragal (n.) The dingo.

Warrandice (n.) The obligation by which a person, conveying a subject or a right, is bound to uphold that subject or right against every claim, challenge, or burden arising from circumstances prior to the conveyance; warranty.

Warrant (n.) That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or obligation, by which one person authorizes another to do something which he has not otherwise a right to do; an act or instrument investing one with a right or authority, and thus securing him from loss or damage; commission; authority.

Warrant (n.) A writing which authorizes a person to receive money or other thing.

Warrant (n.) A precept issued by a magistrate authorizing an officer to make an arrest, a seizure, or a search, or do other acts incident to the administration of justice.

Warrant (n.) An official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer. See Warrant officer, below.

Warrant (n.) That which vouches or insures for anything; guaranty; security.

Warrant (n.) That which attests or proves; a voucher.

Warrant (n.) Right; legality; allowance.

Warranted (imp. & p. p.) of Warrant

Warranting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Warrant

Warrant (n.) To make secure; to give assurance against harm; to guarantee safety to; to give authority or power to do, or forbear to do, anything by which the person authorized is secured, or saved harmless, from any loss or damage by his action.

Warrant (n.) To support by authority or proof; to justify; to maintain; to sanction; as, reason warrants it.

Warrant (n.) To give a warrant or warranty to; to assure as if by giving a warrant to.

Warrant (n.) To secure to, as a grantee, an estate granted; to assure.

Warrant (n.) To secure to, as a purchaser of goods, the title to the same; to indemnify against loss.

Warrant (n.) To secure to, as a purchaser, the quality or quantity of the goods sold, as represented. See Warranty, n., 2.

Warrant (n.) To assure, as a thing sold, to the purchaser; that is, to engage that the thing is what it appears, or is represented, to be, which implies a covenant to make good any defect or loss incurred by it.

Warrantable (a.) Authorized by commission, precept, or right; justifiable; defensible; as, the seizure of a thief is always warrantable by law and justice; falsehood is never warrantable.

Warrantee (n.) The person to whom a warrant or warranty is made.

Warranter (n.) One who warrants, gives authority, or legally empowers.

Warranter (n.) One who assures, or covenants to assure; one who contracts to secure another in a right, or to make good any defect of title or quality; one who gives a warranty; a guarantor; as, the warranter of a horse.

Warrantise (n.) Authority; security; warranty.

Warrantise (v. t.) To warrant.

Warrantor (n.) One who warrants.

Warranties (pl. ) of Warranty

Warranty (n.) A covenant real, whereby the grantor of an estate of freehold and his heirs were bound to warrant and defend the title, and, in case of eviction by title paramount, to yield other lands of equal value in recompense. This warranty has long singe become obsolete, and its place supplied by personal covenants for title. Among these is the covenant of warranty, which runs with the land, and is in the nature of a real covenant.

Warranty (n.) An engagement or undertaking, express or implied, that a certain fact regarding the subject of a contract is, or shall be, as it is expressly or impliedly declared or promised to be. In sales of goods by persons in possession, there is an implied warranty of title, but, as to the quality of goods, the rule of every sale is, Caveat emptor.

Warranty (n.) A stipulation or engagement by a party insured, that certain things, relating to the subject of insurance, or affecting the risk, exist, or shall exist, or have been done, or shall be done. These warranties, when express, should appear in the policy; but there are certain implied warranties.

Warranty (n.) Justificatory mandate or precept; authority; warrant.

Warranty (n.) Security; warrant; guaranty.

Warranty (v. t.) To warrant; to guarantee.

Warray (v. t.) To make war upon. [Obs.] Fairfax.

Warre (a.) Worse.

Warren (n.) A place privileged, by prescription or grant the king, for keeping certain animals (as hares, conies, partridges, pheasants, etc.) called beasts and fowls of warren.

Warren (n.) A privilege which one has in his lands, by royal grant or prescription, of hunting and taking wild beasts and birds of warren, to the exclusion of any other person not entering by his permission.

Warren (n.) A piece of ground for the breeding of rabbits.

Warren (n.) A place for keeping flash, in a river.

Warrener (n.) The keeper of a warren.

Warriangle (n.) See Wariangle.

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