WARPING-HATCH
WARPING-CLOUGH, WARPING-HATCH WARPING-SLUICE, noun A flood gate to let in tide water upon land. [Local.]
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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WARPING-HOOK
WARPING-HOOK, noun A hook used by rope-makers for hanging the yarn on, when warping into hauls for tarring.
WARPING-POST
WARPING-POST, noun A strong post used in warping rope yarn.
WARPING-SLUICE
WARPING-CLOUGH, WARPING-HATCH, WARPING-SLUICE noun A flood gate to let in tide water upon land. [Local.]
WARPROOF
WARPROOF, noun [war and proof.] Valor tried by war.
WARRANT
WARRANT, verb transitive [The primary sense of the root is to stop or hold, or to repel, and thus guard by resisting danger; as we say, to keep off. Hence the sense of security....
WARRANTABLE
WARRANTABLE, adjective Authorized by commission, precept or right; justifiable; defensible. The seizure of a thief is always warrantable by law and justice. Falsehood is never w...
WARRANTABLENESS
WARRANTABLENESS, noun The quality of being justifiable.
WARRANTABLY
WARRANTABLY, adverb In a manner that may be justified; justifiably.
WARRANTED
WARRANTED, participle passive Authorized; justified; secured; assured by covenant or by implied obligation.
WARRANTEE
WARRANTEE, noun The person to whom land or other thing is warranted.
WARRANTER
WARRANTER, noun1. One who gives authority or legally empowers.2. One who assures, or covenants to assure; one who contracts to secure another in a right, or to make good any def...
WARRANTING
WARRANTING, participle present tense1. Authorizing; empowering.2. Assuring; securing to another a right, or covenanting to make good a defect of title in lands, or of quality in...
WARRANTISE
WARRANTISE, noun Authority; security. [Not in use.]
WARRANTOR
WARRANTOR, noun One who warrants.
WARRANTY
WARRANTY, noun1. In law, a promise or covenant by deed, made by the bargainer for himself and his heirs, to warrant or secure the bargainee and his heirs against all men in the ...
WARRAY
WARRAY, verb transitive To make war upon.
WARRE
WARRE, adjective Worse.
WARREN
WARREN, noun [See Guard, Warrant and Wary.]1. A piece of ground appropriated to the breeding and preservation of rabbits.2. In law, a franchise or place privileged by prescripti...
WARRENER
WARRENER, noun The keeper of a warren.
WARRIANGLE
WARRIANGLE, noun A hawk.
WARRIOR
WARRIOR, noun1. In a general sense, a soldier; a man engaged in military life.2. Emphatically, a brave man; a good soldier.
WARRIORESS
WARRIORESS, noun A female warrior.
WART
WART, noun Waurt. [G.]1. A hard excrescence on the skin of animals, which is covered with the production of the cuticle. In horses, warts are spungy excrescences on the hinder p...
WARTED
WARTED, adjective In botany, having little knobs on the surface; verrucose; as a warted capsule.
WARTWORT
WARTWORT, noun A plant of the genus Euphorbia or spurge, which is studded with hard warty knobs; also, a plant of the genus Heliotropium, and another of the genus Lapsana.
WARTY
WARTY, adjective1. Having warts; full of warts; overgrown with warts; as a warty leaf.2. Of the nature of warts.