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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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120 words match “WARN”

MONITORY a. 2 definitions

Giving admonition; instructing by way of caution; warning. Losses, miscarriages, and disappointments, are monitory and instructive. L'Estrange.

A being subject to death; a human being; man. "Warn poor mortals left behind." Tickell.

A woman who takes care of cattle. [R.] Warner.

NOTICE n. 2 definitions

ted; knowledge given or received; means of knowledge; express notification; announcement; warning. I . . . have given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan his duchess will be here. Shak.

rom, the land. -- To be off. (a) To depart; to escape; as, he was off without a moment's warning. (b) To be abandoned, as an agreement or purpose; as, the bet was declared to be off. [Colloq.] -- To come off, To cut off, To fall off, To go off, etc. See under Come, Cut, Fall, Go, etc. -- To get off. (a) To utter; to…

A woman who makes public addresses. Warner.

See Outrage, v. i. [Obs.] This warn I you, that ye not suddenly Out of yourself for no woe should outraye. Chaucer.

To defeat. [Obs.] Warner.

, albeit clad in gray, As peart as bird, as straight as bolt, as fresh as flowers in May. Warner (1592).

- Prac"tive*ly, adv. [Obs.] The preacher and the people both, Then practively did thrive. Warner.

PREADMONITION n.

Previous warning or admonition; forewarning.

To warn or caution beforehand. Locke.

To forewarn; to admonish beforehand. [R.] Herrick. To teach, and to premonish. Bk. of Com. Prayer.

PREMONISHMENT n.

Previous warning or admonition; forewarning. Sir H. Wotton.

Previous warning, notice, or information; forewarning; as, a premonition of danger.

Giving previous warning or notice; as, premonitory symptoms of disease. -- Pre*mon"i*to*ri*ly, adv.

One who reigns before another; a sovereign predecessor. [R.] Warner.

To inform beforehand; to warn. Ld. Lytton.

pses and meteors were anciently deemed prodigies. So many terrors, voices, prodigies, May warn thee, as a sure foregoing sign. Milton.

tine flag, a yellow flag hoisted at the fore of a vessel or hung from a building, to give warning of an infectious disease; -- called also the yellow jack, and yellow flag.