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A tap or stamp of the foot as a warning of intent to attack; -- called also attack.

To counsel, advise, warn, or direct. But mark what I aread thee now. Avaunt! Milton.

ist. When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement be can make for it is, to warn others. Spectator. The Phocians behaved with, so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense. Potter.

To become pregnant. [Obs.] Warner. (Alb. Eng. ).

A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.

A supernatural being supposed to warn a family of the approaching death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice.

A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning. No flaming beacons cast their blaze afar. Gay.

Steep; abrupt; prominent. Where the bold cape its warning forehead rears. Trumbull.

Expelling wind from the body; warning; antispasmodic. "Carmenative hot seeds." Dunglison.

Precept or warning against evil of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction. In way of caution I must tell you. Shak. Caution money, money deposited by way of security or guaranty, as by a student at an English university.

Conveying a caution, or warning to avoid danger; as, cautionary signals.

Intimation of caution; warning; protest. We think it right to enter our caveat against a conclusion. Jeffrey. Caveat emptor Etym: [L.] (Law), let the purchaser beware, i. e., let him examine the article he is buying, and act on his own judgment.

To place or inclosed in a cell. "Celled under ground." [R.] Warner.

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in check, and must be made safe at the next move.

To give birth; to produce young. This queen Genissa childing died. Warner. It chanced within two days they childed both. Latimer.

To flatter. [Obs.] Warner.

that are in any affliction. 2 Cor. i. 4. (Rev. Ver. ). A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command. Wordsworth.

Advice; warning; instruction. [Obs.] Bailey.

inciple which decides as to the character of one's own actions, purposes, and affections, warning against and condemning that which is wrong, and approving and prompting to that which is right; the moral faculty passing judgment on one's self; the moral sense. My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every to…

Somewhat coy or reserved. Warner.