Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WARM'ED, pp.

Moderately heated; made ardent; excited.

WARM'HEART-ED, a.

Very affectionate.

WARM'ING, ppr.

Making moderately hot; making ardent or zealous.

WARM'ING-PAN, n. [warm and pan.]

A covered pan with a long handle, for warming a bed with ignited coals.

WARM'ING-STONE, n. [warm and stone.]

A stone dug in Cornwall, which retains heat a great while. – Ray.

WARM'LY, adv.

1. With gentle heat. – Milton.
2. Eagerly; earnestly; ardently; as, to espouse warmly the cause of Bible societies.

WARM'NESS, or WARMTH, n.

1. Gentle heat; as, the warmth of the blood.
2. Zeal; ardor; fervor; as, the warmth of love or of piety.
3. Earnestness; eagerness. The cause of the Greeks has been espoused with warmth by all parties in free countries.
4. Excitement; animation; as, the warmth of passion. The preacher declaimed with great warmth against the vices of the age.
5. Fancifulness; enthusiasm; as, warmth of head. – Temple.
6. In painting, the fiery effect given to a red color by a small addition of yellow. – Cyc.

WARN, v.t. [waurn; Sax. warnian; Sw. varna; G. warnen; formed on the root of ware, wary, Sax. warian. This is our garnish, as used in law, Norm. garnisher; also garner, for guarner, to warn, to admonish or give notice.]

1. To give notice of approaching or probable danger or evil, that may be avoided; to caution against any thing that may prove injurious. Juturna warns the Daunian chief / Of Laustus' danger. – Dryden. Being warned by God in a dream, that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way. – Matth. ii.
2. To caution against evil practices. – 1 Thess. v.
3. To admonish of any duty. Cornelius … was warned from God by a holy angel to send for thee. – Acts x.
4. To inform previously; to give notice to. – Shak. Warn'd of th' ensuing fight. – Dryden.
5. To notify by authority; to summon; as, to warn the citizens to meet on a certain day; to warn soldiers to appear on parade.
6. To ward off. [Not in use.] – Spenser.

WARN'ED, pp.

Cautioned against danger; admonished of approaching evil; notified.

WARN'ER, n.

An admonisher.

WARN'ING, n.

1. Caution against danger, or against faults or evil practices which incur danger. Could warning make the world more just or wise. – Dryden. Hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. Ezek. iii.
2. Previous notice; as, a short warning. We had a month's warning. – Dryden.

WARN'ING, ppr.

Cautioning against danger; admonishing; giving notice to; summoning to meet or appear.

WAR'-OF-FICE, n.

An office in which the military affairs of a country are superintended and managed. – United States.

WARP, a. [waurp; Sax. wearp; D. werp, a cast or throw. See the verb.]

1. In manufactures, the threads which are extended length-wise in the loom, and crossed by the woof.
2. In a ship, a rope employed in drawing, towing or removing a ship or boat; a towing line. – Mar. Dict.
3. In agriculture, a slimy substance deposited on land by marine tides, by which a rich alluvial soil is formed. [Local.] – Cyc.
4. In cows, a premature casting of the young. [See the verb.] [Local.]

WARP, v.i. [Sax. weorpan, wurpan, wyrpan, to throw, to return; G. werfen, to cast or throw, to whelp; D. werpen, to throw or fling, to whelp, kitten or litter; Dan. værper, to lay eggs; varper, to tow; Sw. värpa, to lay eggs; Ir. and Gaelic, fiaram, to bend, twist, incline.]

1. To turn, twist or be twisted out of a straight direction; as, a board warps in seasoning, or in the heat of the sun, by shrinking. They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another, to keep it from casting or warping. – Moxon.
2. To turn or incline from a straight, true or proper course; to deviate. There's our commission, / From which we would not have you warp. – Shak. Methinks / My favor here begins to warp. – Shak.
3. To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects. The following use of warp is inimitably beautiful. As when the potent rod / Of Amram's son, in Egypt's evil day, / Wav'd round the coast, up call'd a pitchy cloud / Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind. – Milton.
4. To slink; to cast the young prematurely; as cows. In an inclosure near a dog-kennel, eight heifers out of twenty warped. [Local.] – Cyc.

WARP, v.t.

1. To turn or twist out of shape, or out of a straight direction, by contraction. The heat of the sun warps boards and timber.
2. To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert. This first avow'd, nor folly warp'd my mind. – Dryden. I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy. – Addison. Zeal, to a degree of warmth able to warp the sacred rule of God's word. – Locke.
3. In seamen's language, to tow or move with a line or warp, attached to buoys, to anchors, or to other ships, &c. by which means a ship is drawn, usually in a bending course or with various turns.
4. In rural economy, to cast the young prematurely. [Lord.] – Cyc.
5. In agriculture, to inundate, as land, with sea water; or to let in the tide, for the purpose of fertilizing the ground by a deposit of warp or slimy substance. Warp here is the throw, or that which is cast by the water. [Local in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, Eng.] – Cyc.
6. In rope-making, to run the yarn off the winches into hauls to be tarred. To warp water, in Shakspeare, is forced and unusual; indeed it is not English.

WARP'ED, pp.

Twisted by shrinking or seasoning; turned out of the true direction; perverted; moved with a warp; overflowed.

WARP'ING, ppr.

Turning or twisting; causing to incline; perverting; moving with a warp; enriching by overflowing with tide water.

WARP'ING-BANK, n.

A bank or mound of earth raised round a field for retaining the water let in from the sea. [Local.] – Cyc.

WARP'ING-CLOUGH, n. [or WARP'ING-HATCH, or WARP'ING-SLUICE.]

A flood-gate to let in tide-water upon land. [Local.]

WARP'ING-CUT, n. [or WARP'ING-DRAIN, or WARP'ING-GUT-TER.]

A open passage or channel for discharging the water from lands inundated. [Local.] – Cyc.

WARP'ING-HOOK, n.

A hook used by rope-makers for hanging the yarn on, when warping into hauls for tarring. – Cyc.

WARP'ING-POST, n.

A strong post used in warping rope yarn. – Cyc.

WAR'PLUME, n.

A plume worn in war.

WAR'PROOF, n. [war and proof.]

Valor tried by war.