Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WARE'FUL-NESS, n.

Wariness; cautiousness. [Obs.]

WARE'HOUSE, n. [ware and house.]

A storehouse for goods. – Addison.

WARE'HOUSE, v.i. [s as z.]

To deposit or secure in a warehouse.

WARE'HOUS-ED, pp.

Placed in a store for safe keeping.

WARE'HOUS-ING, ppr.

Repositing in a store for safe keeping.

WARE'LESS, a.

1. Unwary; incautious. [Obs.] – Spenser.
2. Suffered unawares. [Obs.]

WARE'LY, adv.

Cautiously. [Obs.] [See Waray.]

WAR'FARE, n. [war and fare, Sax. faran, to go.]

1. Military service; military life; war. The Philistines gathered their armies for warfare. 1 Sam. xxviii.
2. Contest; struggle with spiritual enemies. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal. 2 Cor. x.

WAR'FARE, v.i.

To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars. In that credulous warfaring age. [Little used.] Camden.

WAR'FIELD, n.

Field of war or battle.

WAR'HA-BLE, a. [tear and L. habilis.]

Fit for war. [Not in use.] – Spenser.

WAR'HOOP, n. [war and hoop.]

The savage yell of war; a yell uttered on entering into battle.

WAR'I-LY, adv. [from wary.]

Cautiously; with timorous prudence or wise foresight. Great enterprises are to be conducted warily. Change of laws should be warily proceeded in. – Hooker.

WAR'INE, n.

A species of monkey of South America. – Dict. Nat. Hist.

WA'RI-NESS, n.

Caution; prudent care to foresee and guard against evil. The road was so slippery, and the danger so great, that we were obliged to proceed with wariness. To determine what are little things in religion, great wariness is to be used. – Sprat.

WAR-ING, ppr.

Turning a ship by her stem to the wind.

WAR-IN-SU'RANCE, n.

Insurance on vessels in time of war, which enhances premiums. – Jefferson.

WARK, n.

Work; a building. – Spenser. [It is obsolete, except in bulwark.]

WAR'LIKE, a. [war and like.]

1. Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state. Old Siward with ten thousand warlike men. – Shak.
2. Military; pertaining to war; as, warlike toil. – Milton.
3. Having a martial appearance.
4. Having the appearance of war.

WAR'LIKE-NESS, n.

A warlike disposition or character. [Little used.] – Sandys.

WAR'LING, a.

One often quarreled with a word coined perhaps to rhyme with darling. [Not in use.] – Camden.

WAR'LOCK, or WAR'LUCK, n. [wær-loga, in Saxon, signifies perfidious, false to covenants. Qu. Ice. vard-lookr.]

A male witch; a wizard. – Dryden. [This word is not in use.]

WARM, a. [waurm; Goth. D. and G. warm; Sax. wearm; Sw. and Dan. varm; Ant. L. formus. This word is probably a derivative from the root of L. ferveo, whence fermentum, Eng. barm. See Swarm.]

1. Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold; as, warm blood; warm milk. The flesh of living animals is warm, if their blood is warm. But some animals have not warm blood.
2. Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no winter; as, the warm climate of Egypt.
3. Zealous; ardent; as, to be warm in the cause of our country or of religion. Each warm wish springs mutual from the heart. – Pope.
4. Habitually ardent or passionate; keen; irritable; as, a warm temper.
5. Easily excited or provoked; irritable; as, warm passions.
6. Violent; furious; as, a warm contest. We shall have warm work to-day.
7. Busy in action; heated in action; ardent. Be warm in fight.
8. Fanciful; enthusiastic; as, a warm head.
9. Vigorous; sprightly. Now warm in youth, now withering in thy bloom, / Lost in a convent's solitary gloom. – Pope.

WARM, v.i.

1. To become moderately heated. The earth soon warms in a clear day in summer.
2. To become ardent or animated. The speaker should warm as he proceeds in the argument, for as he becomes animated, he excites more interest in his audience.

WARM, v.t. [Sax. wearmian; Goth. warmyan.]

1. To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment. The sun in summer warms the earth, and gives life to vegetation.
2. To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; as, to warm the heart with love or zeal. I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial writings. – Pope.