warrer (warer)

[ Female warrers against modesty. E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, II. 168. warriangle (wor'i-ang"gl), n. [Also warian gle ; wary angle , weryangle (Sc. wairingle , weir angle), weargincel (Stratmann) = MLG . wargingel = OHG. warchengil (G. würgengel), the butcher-bird, shrike; wearg , weark, accursed, as a noun, a man accursed, an outlaw, wretch (see warry ), + -incel , a dim. suffix, confused in MLG. and G. with engel , angel, so that G. würgengel , a butcher-bird, is identical in form with würgengel , a destroying angel ( würgen , destroy, = E. worry: ef. warry and worry). Cf. MLG. worgel , a butcher-bird, from the same source.] A shrike or butcher-bird. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] This so mon our that was as ful of jangles As ful of venym been thise wary angles [var. weryangles ). Chaucer, Friar's Tale, L. 110. Warriangles be a kind of birdes, full of noyse and very ravenous, preying upon others, which, when they have taken, they use to hang upon a thorne or pricke, and teare them in pieces and devoure them. And the common opinion is, that the thorn whereupon they thus fasten them and eate them is afterward poyson some. Speght , note under arneat in Cotgrave (ed. 1598). warrick (wor'ik), v . t . [ME.: cf. warrok .] 1. To fasten with a girth; gird. Sette my sadel vppon Soffre-til-I-seo-my-tyme, And loke thou warroke him wel with swithe feole gurthhes. Piers Plowman (A), iv. 19. 2. To twitch (a cord) tight by cro ing it with another. Hall i well. [Prov. [Prov. Eng.] Ε warrigal, n. Same as warragal. warrin (wor'in), n. The blue-bellied brush tongued parrot, Tri chog lo us multicolor, a lory or lorikeet of Australia, of notably varied and brilliant colors. (war'ing), a . Adverse; conflicting; warring (war'ing), guerreier, F. guerroyer guerrear = It. guerreggiare , make war, werre , guerre, war: see warl . Hence ult. warrior .] To wage war upon; invade in arms; ravage or harry, as a country or district. At Sarray, in the londe of Tartarye, Ther dwelte a king, that werreyed Ru ye. Chaucer, Squire's Tale, 1. 2. Six years were run since first in martial guise The Christian lords warray'd the Eastern lands. Fairfax, tr. of Ta o, i. 6. warret. An obsolete spelling of war1, war2. warreel, n. [Native name.] The taguicati, or white-lipped peccary, Dicotyles labiatus. warree2, n. The common millet, Panicum mil i aceum: same as kadi - kane.