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ertain animals (as hares, conies, partridges, pheasants, etc.) called beasts and fowls of warren. Burrill.

The keeper of a warren.

athery form. A clump of ancient cedars feathering in evergreen beauty down to the ground. Warren. The ripple feathering from her bows. Tennyson.

Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren. Burrill.

is point of time, or of an argument; now. The prisoner here made violent efforts to rise. Warren.

the military force of a state in peace and war, and administered in courts martial. Kent. Warren's Blackstone. -- Moral law,the law of duty as regards what is right and wrong in the sight of God; specifically, the ten commandments given by Moses. See Law, 2. -- Mosaic, or Ceremonial, law. (Script.) See Law, 3. -- Mu…

in England and in New York. its place is now supplied by a simple deed of grant. Burrill. Warren's Blackstone.

habits the plains west of the Mississippi. The prairie dogs burrow in the ground in large warrens, and have a sharp bark like that of a dog. Called also prairie marmot. -- Prairie grouse. Same as Prairie chicken, above. -- Prairie hare (Zoöl.), a large long-eared Western hare (Lepus campestris). See Jack rabbit, unde…

rly in frequent use, but now abolished or obsolete, both in England and America. Burrill. Warren.

icially arranged for keeping or raising living animals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc.

A warrener. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.