1. 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. "Warned
of the ensuing fight." Dryden.
Cornelius the centurion . . . was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee.
Acts x. 22.
Who is it that hath warned us to the walls?
Shak. 2. To give notice to, of approaching or probable danger or evil; to caution against anything that may
prove injurious. "Juturna warns the Daunian chief of Lausus' danger, urging swift relief." Dryden.
3. To ward off. [Obs.] Spenser.
Warner
(Warn"er) n. One who warns; an admonisher.
Warner
(Warn"er), n. A warrener. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
Warning
(Warn"ing), a. Giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing; as, a warning voice.
That warning timepiece never ceased.
Longfellow. Warning piece, Warning wheel (Horol.), a piece or wheel which produces a sound shortly before the
clock strikes.
Warning
(Warn"ing), n.
1. Previous notice. "At a month's warning." Dryden.
A great journey to take upon so short a warning.
L'Estrange. 2. Caution against danger, or against faults or evil practices which incur danger; admonition; monition.
Could warning make the world more just or wise.
Dryden. Warningly
(Warn"ing*ly), adv. In a warning manner.
Warnstore
(Warn"store) v. t. [Cf. OF. warnesture, garnesture, provisions, supplies, and E. garnish.]
To furnish. [Obs.] "To warnstore your house." Chaucer.
Warp
(Warp) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Warped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Warping.] [OE. warpen; fr. Icel. varpa
to throw, cast, varp a casting, fr. verpa to throw; akin to Dan. varpe to warp a ship, Sw. varpa, AS.
weorpan to cast, OS. werpan, OFries. werpa, D. & LG. werpen, G. werfen, Goth. waírpan; cf. Skr.
vrj to twist. . Cf. Wrap.]
1. To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
2. To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise.
The planks looked warped.
Coleridge.
Walter warped his mouth at this
To something so mock solemn, that I laughed.
Tennyson.
