Warish
(War"ish), v. i. To be cured; to recover. [Obs.]

Your daughter . . . shall warish and escape.
Chaucer.

Warison
(War"i*son) n. [OF. warison safety, supplies, cure, F. guérison cure. See Warish, v. t.]

1. Preparation; protection; provision; supply. [Obs.]

2. Reward; requital; guerdon. [Obs. or Scot.]

Wit and wisdom is good warysoun.
Proverbs of Hending.

Wark
(Wark) n. [See Work.] Work; a building. [Obs. or Scot.] Spenser.

Warkloom
(Wark"loom) n. A tool; an implement. [Scot.]

Warlike
(War"like`) a.

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

Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men.
Shak.

2. Belonging or relating to war; military; martial.

The great archangel from his warlike toil Surceased.
Milton.

Syn. — Martial; hostile; soldierly. See Martial.

Warlikeness
(War"like`ness), n. Quality of being warlike.

Warling
(War"ling) n. One often quarreled with; — word coined, perhaps, to rhyme with darling. [Obs.]

Better be an old man's darling than a young man's warling.
Camde.

Warlock
(War"lock) n. [OE. warloghe a deceiver, a name or the Devil, AS. wrloga a belier or breaker of his agreement, word, or pledge; wr covenant, troth (aki to L. verus true; see Very) + loga a liar leógan to lie. See 3d Lie.] A male witch; a wizard; a sprite; an imp. [Written also warluck.] Dryden.

It was Eyvind Kallda's crew
Of warlocks blue,
With their caps of darkness hooded!
Longfellow.

Warlock
(War"lock), a. Of or pertaining to a warlock or warlock; impish. [R.]

Thou shalt win the warlock fight.
J. R. Drak.

Warlockry
(War"lock*ry) n. Impishness; magic.

Warly
(War"ly) a. Warlike. Burns.

Warm
(Warm) a. [Compar. Warmer; superl. Warmest.] [AS. wearm; akin to OS., OFries., D., & G. warm, Icel. varmr, Sw. & Dan. varm, Goth. warmjan to warm; probably akin to Lith. virti to cook, boil; or perhaps to Skr. gharma heat, OL. formus warm. .]

1. Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk. "Whose blood is warm within." Shak.

Warm and still is the summer night.
Longfellow.

2. Having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing.


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