One engaged in warfare; a military man; a soldier; a warrior.

Fit for war.

The red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); -- called also w/rger, worrier, and throttler.

In a wary manner.

Wariness.

A South American monkey, one of the sapajous.

The quality or state of being wary; care to foresee and guard against evil; cautiousness.

To be cured; to recover.

Work; a building.

A tool; an implement.

Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition.

Quality of being warlike.

One often quarreled with; -- / word coined, perhaps, to rhyme with darling.

Of or pertaining to a warlock or warlock; impish.

Impishness; magic.

Warlike.

The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a warming; a heating.

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.

Having strong affection; cordial; sincere; hearty; sympathetic.

One who, or that which, warms.

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

a. n. from Warm, v.

In a warm manner; ardently.

Warmth.

One who makes ar a trade or business; a mercenary.

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

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

Being without warmth; not communicating warmth; cold.

To refuse.

A warrener.

Previous notice.

In a warning manner.

To furnish.

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.

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

The route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlike expedition.

One who, or that which, warps or twists out of shape.

The act or process of one who, or that which, warps.

Valor tried by war.

The dingo.

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.

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.

The person to whom a warrant or warranty is made.

One who warrants, gives authority, or legally empowers.

To warrant.

One who warrants.

To warrant; to guarantee.

To make war upon. [Obs.] Fairfax.

Worse.

The keeper of a warren.

See Wariangle.

See Warye.

An Australian lorikeet (Trichoglossus multicolor) remarkable for the variety and brilliancy of its colors; -- called also blue-bellied lorikeet, and blue-bellied parrot.

A man engaged or experienced in war, or in the military life; a soldier; a champion.

A female warrior.

See Warye.

The black grouper (Epinephelus nigritus) of the southern coasts of the United States. The jewfish; -- called also guasa.

Having little knobs on the surface; verrucose; as, a warted capsule.

Having no wart.

Same as Wartwort.

Having warts; full of warts; overgrow with warts; as, a warty leaf.

An American fresh-water mussel (Quadrula pustulosa). Its shell is used in making buttons.

A dark brown or black mineral, occurring in prismatic crystals imbedded in limestone near Warwick, New York. It consists of the borate and titanate of magnesia and iron.

Worn with military service; as, a warworn soldier; a warworn coat.

To curse; to curse; to execrate; to condemn; also, to vex.

The first and third persons singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, preterit (imperfect) tense; as, I was; he was.

A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head.

Washy; weak.

to be removed by washing; -- of spots and stains, especially on clothing.

A sale made in washing. See Washing, n., 3, above.

Capable of being washed off; not permanent or durable; -- said of colors not fixed by steaming or otherwise.

Capable of being washed without damage to fabric or color.

A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them.

A basin, or bowl, to hold water for washing one's hands, face, etc.

A washbowl.

Appearing as if overlaid with a thin layer of different color; -- said of the colors of certain birds and insects.

p. p. of Wash.

One who, or that which, washes.

A man who washes clothes, esp. for hire, or for others.

An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.

The quality or state of being washy, watery, or weak.

The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy.

The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away.

A pot or vessel in which anything is washed.

A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person.

A tub in which clothes are washed.

Watery; damp; soft.

A variety of allanite from Sweden supposed to contain wasium.

A rare element supposed by Bahr to have been extracted from wasite, but now identified with thorium.

Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets.

Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.

To hold a wassail; to carouse.

One who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity, especially in drinking; a reveler.

Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.

To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less; -- commonly used with away.

A basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper.

See Washboard, 3.

A book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal.

Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.

A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake.

The quality or state of being waste; a desolate state or condition; desolation.

A spendthrift.

An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like.

Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune.

A waster; a thief.

See Wastrel.

Any waste thing or substance Waste land or common land. A profligate. A neglected child; a street Arab.

A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.

One who watches; one who sits up or continues; a diligent observer; specifically, one who attends upon the sick during the night.

The leaves of Saracenia flava. See Trumpets.

Pale or light blue.

Full of watch; vigilant; attentive; careful to observe closely; observant; cautious; -- with of before the thing to be regulated or guarded; as, to be watchful of one's behavior; and with against before the thing to be avoided; as, to be watchful against the growth of vicious habits.

A house in which a watch or guard is placed.

One whose occupation is to make and repair watches.

A tower in which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies, the approach of danger, or the like.

A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password.

To shed, secrete, or fill with, water or liquid matter; as, his eyes began to water.

See Canker, n., 1.

Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the Nile. See Monitor, n., 3.