which one has in his lands, by royal grant or prescription, of hunting and taking wild beasts and birds of
warren, to the exclusion of any other person not entering by his permission. Spelman.
They wend both warren and in waste.
Piers Plowman. The warren is the next franchise in degree to the park; and a forest, which is the highest in dignity, comprehends
a chase, a park, and a free warren.
2. A piece of ground for the breeding of rabbits.
3. A place for keeping flash, in a river.
Warrener
(War"ren*er) n. The keeper of a warren.
Warriangle
(War`ri*an"gle) n. (Zoöl.) See Wariangle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Warrie
(War"rie) v. t. See Warye. [Obs.]
Warrin
(War"rin) n. [From a native name.] (Zoöl.) An Australian lorikeet (Trichoglossus multicolor) remarkable
for the variety and brilliancy of its colors; — called also blue-bellied lorikeet, and blue-bellied parrot.
Warrior
(War"rior) n. [OE. werreour, OF. werreour, guerreor, from guerre, werre, war. See War,
and Warray.] A man engaged or experienced in war, or in the military life; a soldier; a champion.
Warriors old with ordered spear and shield.
Milton. Warrior ant (Zoöl.), a reddish ant (Formica sanguinea) native of Europe and America. It is one of the
species which move in armies to capture and enslave other ants.
Warrioress
(War"rior*ess), n. A female warrior. [Obs.] Spenser.
Warry
(War"ry) v. t. See Warye. [Obs.]
Warsaw
(War"saw) n. (Zoöl.) (a) The black grouper (Epinephelus nigritus) of the southern coasts of
the United States. (b) The jewfish; — called also guasa.
Wart
(Wart) n. [OE. werte, AS. wearte; akin to D. wrat, G. warze, OHG. warza, Icel. varta, Sw.
vårta, Dan. vorte; perh. orig., a growth, and akin to E. wort; or cf. L. verruca wart.]
1. (Med.) A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillæ, and
thickening of the epidermis which covers them.
2. An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular
excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants.
Fig wart, Moist wart (Med.), a soft, bright red, pointed or tufted tumor found about the genitals, often
massed into groups of large size. It is a variety of condyloma. Called also pointed wart, venereal wart.
L. A. Duhring. — Wart cress (Bot.), the swine's cress. See under Swine. — Wart snake (Zoöl.),
any one of several species of East Indian colubrine snakes of the genus Acrochordus, having the body
covered with wartlike tubercles or spinose scales, and lacking cephalic plates and ventral scutes. —
Wart spurge (Bot.), a kind of wartwort
Warted
(Wart"ed), a. (Bot.) Having little knobs on the surface; verrucose; as, a warted capsule.
Wart hog
(Wart" hog`) (Zoöl.) Either one of two species of large, savage African wild hogs of the genus
Phacochœrus. These animals have a pair of large, rough, fleshy tubercles behind the tusks and second
pair behind the eyes. The tusks are large and strong, and both pairs curve upward. The body is scantily
