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Seaweed. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Ware goose (Zoöl.), the brant; -- so called because it feeds on ware, or seaweed. [Prov. Eng.]

Wary; watchful; cautious. [Obs.]

Wariness; cautiousness. [Obs.] "Full of warefulness." Sir P. Sidney.

(Zoöl.) A Brazilian fly whose larvæ live in the skin of man and animals, producing painful sores.

A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison.

One who keeps a warehouse; the owner or keeper of a dock warehouse or wharf store.

The act of placing goods in a warehouse, or in a customhouse store. Warehousing system, an arrangement for lodging imported articles in the customhouse stores, without payment of duties until they are taken out for home consumption. If reëxported, they are not charged with a duty. See Bonded warehouse, under Bonded, a.…

Unwary; incautious; unheeding; careless; unaware. [Obs.] And wareless of the evil That by themselves unto themselves is wrought. Spenser.

arily. [Obs.] They bound him hand and foot with iron chains, And with continual watch did warely keep. Spenser.

Madder.

A room in which goods are stored or exhibited for sale.

See 4th Ware.

A soft ornamental terra-cotta pottery, sold in the biscuit state for decorating.

Apprised; informed; cognizant; conscious; as, he was aware of the enemy's designs. Aware of nothing arduous in a task They never undertook. Cowper.

A porcelainlike kind of decorative pottery with a high gloss, which is sometimes iridescent. A very fine kind is made at Belleek in Ireland.

o take care; -- commonly followed by of or lest before the thing that is to be avoided. Beware of all, but most beware of man ! Pope. Beware the awful avalanche. Longfellow.

A kind of metallic ware made in India. The material is a composition of zinc, tin, and lead, in which ornaments of gold and silver are inlaid or damascened. [Spelt also bidry, bidree, bedery, beder.]

A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth century. Halliwell.

See Crackle, n., 3.

An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.