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Wariness; cautiousness. [Obs.] "Full of warefulness." Sir P. Sidney.

(Zoöl.) A Brazilian fly whose larvæ live in the skin of man and animals, producing painful sores.

A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison.

One who keeps a warehouse; the owner or keeper of a dock warehouse or wharf store.

The act of placing goods in a warehouse, or in a customhouse store. Warehousing system, an arrangement for lodging imported articles in the customhouse stores, without payment of duties until they are taken out for home consumption. If reëxported, they are not charged with a duty. See Bonded warehouse, under Bonded, a.…

Unwary; incautious; unheeding; careless; unaware. [Obs.] And wareless of the evil That by themselves unto themselves is wrought. Spenser.

Cautiously; warily. [Obs.] They bound him hand and foot with iron chains, And with continual watch did warely keep. Spenser.

Madder.

A room in which goods are stored or exhibited for sale.

See 4th Ware.

Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war. The Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. I Sam. xxviii. 1. This day from battle rest; Faithful hath been your warfare. Milton.

One engaged in warfare; a military man; a soldier; a warrior.

Fit for war. [Obs.] "Warhable youth." Spenser.

ed shrike (Lanius collurio); -- called also würger, worrier, and throttler. [Written also warriangle, weirangle, etc.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

In a wary manner.

Wariness. [Obs.] Spenser.

A South American monkey, one of the sapajous.

The quality or state of being wary; care to foresee and guard against evil; cautiousness. "An almost reptile wariness." G. W. Cable. To determine what are little things in religion, great wariness is to be used. Sprat.

To protect from the effects of; hence, to cure; to heal. [Obs.] My brother shall be warished hastily. Chaucer. Varro testifies that even at this day there be some who warish and cure the stinging of serpents with their spittle. Holland.

Reward; requital; guerdon. [Obs. or Scot.] Wit and wisdom is good warysoun. Proverbs of Hending.