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To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee. See Garnishee, v. t. Cowell.

To make (a person) a garnishee; to warn by garnishment; to garnish.

Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter.

hich, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning.

To harlot. [Obs.] Warner.

To communicate a knowledge of facts to,by way of accusation; to warn against anybody. Tertullus . . . informed the governor against Paul. Acts xxiv. 1.

In an intellective manner. [R.] "Not intellectivelly to write." Warner.

jostle; esp., to push or touch, in order to give notice, to excite one's attention, or to warn. Now leaps he upright, jogs me, and cries: Do you see Yonder well- favored youth Donne. Sudden I jogged Ulysses, who was laid Fast by my side. Pope.

An imaginary spirit of the waters, horselike in form, vulgarly believed to warn, by preternatural noises and lights, those who are to be drowned. Jamieson.

neral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively, a warning of, or a sound indicating, the passing away of anything. The dead man's knell Is there scarce asked for who. Shak. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. Gray.

Becoming or suitable to a lady; as, ladylike manners. "With fingers ladylike." Warner.

A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning. She would give her a lesson for walking so late. Sir. P. Sidney.

Cultivation. [Obs.] Warner.

Honey. [Obs.] Warner.

Lit., remember to die, i.e., that you must die; a warning to be prepared for death; an object, as a death's-head or a personal ornament, usually emblematic, used as a reminder of death.

To temper ill; to disorder; as, to mistemper one's head. Warner. This inundation of mistempered humor. Shak.

To warn; to admonish; to advise. [Obs.] Wyclif (2 Cor. v. 20).

To admonish; to warn. See Admonish. [Archaic] Ascham.

Instruction or advice given by way of caution; an admonition; a warning; a caution. Sage monitions from his friends. Swift.

One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution. You need not be a monitor to the king. Bacon.