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e; cautioning; admonishing; as, a warning voice. That warning timepiece never ceased. Longfellow. Warning piece, Warning wheel (Horol.), a piece or wheel which produces a sound shortly before the clock strikes.

h-blown roses washed with dew. Milton. [The landscape] washed with a cold, gray mist. Longfellow.

; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil. Half a dozen of veneys at wasters with a good fellow for a broken head. Beau. & Fl. Being unable to wield the intellectual arms of reason, they are fain to betake them unto wasters. Sir T. Browne.

tle, and watch my opportunity. Landor. In lazy mood I watched the little circles die. Longfellow.

g the ground. Milton. Men whose lives gilded on like rivers that water the woodlands. Longfellow.

r pendent fleshy processes at the chin or throat. The wattled cocks strut to and fro. Longfellow.

great way; a long way. And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began to fail. Longfellow.

Of or pertaining to the wayside; as, wayside flowers. "A wayside inn." Longfellow.

for my spirits if my legs were not weary. Shak. [I] am weary, thinking of your task. Longfellow.

to endure; to resist; as, to weather the storm. For I can weather the roughest gale. Longfellow. You will weather the difficulties yet. F. W. Robertson.

his face with every wind." Chaucer. Noisy weathercocks rattled and sang of mutation. Longfellow.

s; marriage; nuptials. Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz. Longfellow.

Mitford. And eyes that wake to weep. Mrs. Hemans. And they wept together in silence. Longfellow.

ird seizures. Tennyson. Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation. Longfellow. Weird sisters, the Fates. [Scot.] G. Douglas.

of Palerne. The brutes that wear our form and face, The werewolves of the human race. Longfellow.

One who whales, or beats; a big, strong fellow; hence, anything of great or unusual size. [Colloq. U. S.]

e. Milton. We know what master laid thy keel, What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel. Longfellow.

s. Shak. The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he. Longfellow.

s the jest without the smile. Coleridge. I will go forth and breathe the air a while. Longfellow.

A nimble little fellow; a whippersnapper. Every puny whipster gets my sword. Shak.