warax (waraks)

Same as battle - ax. war beetle (wâr'bē"tl), n. Same as warble3, 3. warble1 (war'bl), v.; pret. and pp. warbled, ppr. warbling. [ Warble, child; make pa ionate my sense of hearing. Shak., L. L. L., iii. 1. 1. Birds on the branches warbling . Milton , P. L., viii. 264. 2. To sound vibratingly, or with free, smooth, and rapid modulations of pitch; quaver. Such strains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat. Gay , Shepherd's Week, Wednesday, 1. 3. The stream of life warbled through her heart as a brook sometimes warbles through a pleasant little dell. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, v. 3. To yodel. [U. S.] II. trans. 1. To sing or utter with quavering trills or turns: as, to warble a song. She gan againe in melodie to melt, And many a note she warbled wondrous wel. Gas coigne , Philomene (Steele Glas, etc., ed. Arber, p. 89). If she be right invoked with warbled song. Milton , Comus, 1. 854. 2. To describe or celebrate in song. O Father, grant I sweetly warble forth Vnto our seed the World's renowned Birth, Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 1. Or would you have me turn a sonnet teer, And warble those brief-sighted eyes of hers? Tennyson, Queen Mary, iii. 6.