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Work; a building. [Obs. or Scot.] Spenser.

A tool; an implement. [Scot.]

Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition. Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men. Shak.

Quality of being warlike.

ften quarreled with; -- darling. [Obs.] Better be an old man's darling than a young man's warling. Camde

A male witch; a wizard; a sprite; an imp. [Written also warluck.] Dryden. It was Eyvind Kallda's crew Of warlocks blue, With their caps of darkness hooded! Longfellow.

Impishness; magic.

Warlike. Burns.

Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk. "Whose blood is warm within." Shak. Warm and still is the summer night. Longfellow.

Having warm blood; -- applied especially to those animals, as birds and mammals, which have warm blood, or, more properly, the power of maintaining a nearly uniform temperature whatever the temperature of the surrounding air. See Homoiothermal.

Having strong affection; cordial; sincere; hearty; sympathetic. -- Warm"-heart`ed*ness, n.

One who, or that which, warms.

Abounding in capacity to warm; giving warmth; as, a warmful garment. [R.] Chapman.

a. & n. from Warm, v. Warming pan, a long-handled covered pan into which live coals are put, -- used for warming beds. Shak.

In a warm manner; ardently.

Warmth. Chaucer.

One who makes ar a trade or business; a mercenary. [R.] Spenser.

An American freshwater bream, or sunfish (Chænobryttus gulosus); -- called also red-eyed bream.

The quality or state of being warm; gentle heat; as, the warmth of the sun; the warmth of the blood; vital warmth. Here kindly warmth their mounting juice ferments. Addison.

Being without warmth; not communicating warmth; cold. [R.] Coleridge.