Lykwayes wc sould keep the vouales of the orlgmal, 
quherin the north warren the south ; from retineo, the 
north retine, the south retain. 
A. Humt, Orthographie (E. E. T. S.), p. 20. 
Love and Ambition in their glory sat . . . 
Warring each other. Daniel, Civil Wars, viii. 
2. To carry on, as a contest. 
That thou by them raightest icor a good warfare. 
1 Tim. i. 18. 
war2 (war), a. [Se. also waitr; < ME. warre, 
Kerre, wer, a later form, after OFries. werra, 
tcirra, worse, of leel. verri, a. (verr, adv.) = Dan. 
tserre = Sw. vdrre, of ME. werse, E. worse : see 
worse.'] Same as worse. [Now only Scotch, 
commonly misspelled waur.] 
They sayue the world is much wor then It wont. 
Speruer, Shep. Cal., September. 
Murder and watir than murder. Scott. 
War^ (war), t'. «. [Scalsoicaur; < «inr2,«.] To 
defeat; worst. [Scotch.] 
It was a paper of great slKniflcance to the plea, and we 
were to be waured for want o't. Scutt, Anti<|uary, i.\. 
war*t, «• and c. A Middle English form of icarel . 
war*t, c. A Middle English form of were. 
waratah (wa'ra-ta), w. [Also warratau.'} 1. 
A stout erect Australian shrub, Telopea specio- 
sissima, also T. orendes, of the Proteaeese, bear- 
ing dense heads, some 3 inches broad, of bril- 
liant crimson flowers. It is sometimes grown 
in greenhouses, but is not easily cultivated. — 
2. A variety of the common camellia, with 
flowers resembling those of Anemone; ane- 
mone-flowered camellia. 
war-az (wAr'aks), n. Same as battle-ax. 
warbeetle (war'be'tl), n. Same as warble^, 3. 
warble^ (war'bl), r. ; pret. and pp. warbled, ppr. 
warbling. [< ME. werblen, < OF. werbler, quaver 
with the voice, speak in a high tone, < MHG. 
*werbelen, G. wirbeln, warble, lit. turn, whirl, 
freq. of MHG. werben (werren) = OHG. werban 
(werfan), turn, twist, move, be busy about, per- 
form, = 08. hwerbhaii, move hither and thither, 
= AS. hwforfan, turn, move : see wlierve, wharf, 
and cf. whirl, wharl, whorl.] I. intrans. 1. To 
sing with trills and (juavering, or melodious 
turns, as a bird ; carol or sing with sweetly 
trilling notes. 
Warble, child ; make passionate niy sense of hearing. 
Shak., L. L. I., lit. 1. 1. 
Birds ou the branches mtrbtinff. Milton, P. L., vlii. iM. 
2. To sound vibratingly, or with free, smooth, 
and rapid modulations of pitch ; quaver. 
Such strains ne'er uvtrbU in the linnet's tliroat. 
Qay, Sheplierii's Week, Wednesday, 1. 3. 
The stream of life trarliUd through her heart as n brook 
■ometlniea xcarbUt through a pleasant little dell. 
Ilawthonie, Seven Qables, v. 
3. To yodel. [U. S.] 
U. trans. 1. To sing or utter with quaver- 
ing trills or turns: as, to warble a song. 
She gan againe in melodie to melt, 
And many a note she warbled wondrous wel. 
(lafKoigne, rhilomene (Steele (Jlas, etc., ed. Arber, p. 89). 
If she be right invoked with warbled song. 
Milton, Comus, 1. 864. 
2. To describe or celebrate in song. 
O Father, grant I sweetly warble forth 
Vnto our seed the World's renowned Birth. 
Sylcetter, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, 1. 1. 
Or would yon have mo tnni a sonnetteer. 
And trorW* those brief-sighted eyes of hers'? 
Tenitynon, Queen -Mary, ill. 0. 
'warble' (war'bl), n. [< ME. werbic, < OF. wer- 
ble, a warble, warbling; from the verb.] A 
strain of clear, rapidly uttered, gliding tdnes; 
a trilling, flexible melody ; a carol ; a song ; 
any soft sweet flow of melodious sounds. 
The wcll-tunetl warble of her nightly sorrow. 
Shak. , Lucrcce, !. 1080. 
Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet, 
Rings Eden through the Ifudded quicks. 
Tennfttfon, In Menioriani, Ixxxviii. 
Quiet as any water-84Klden log 
Stay'd in the wandering warUe of a brook. 
Tennyson, Last I'ournantent. 
warble^ (wAr'bl), v. t. and /.; pret. an<l pp. 
warbled, p|)r. warblimj. [Sc, also warplc ; < 
ME. 'werblen, turn, whirl (?), ult. same as 
warble^, q. v.] In falconry, to cross the wings 
upon the back. 
warble-' (war'bl), h. [Also wormil, wormul, 
warnle, wornil, wornal, also assimilated wabble, 
and dim. warblet; cf. P(|uiv. warbeetle. and the 
adj. worbitten, said of timber pierced by the 
larvEe of insects; orig. form uncertain, no 
early instances appearing; perhaps connected 
with ME. war, pus, humor. Some of the forms 
indicate simulation of ifor/H.] 1. .\ small, hard 
swelling on the back of a horse, jirodnced by 
6819 
the galling of the saddle. — 2. A tumor on the 
back of cattle or deer, produced by the larva of 
a bot-fly or gadfly.— 3. An insect or its larva 
which produces warbles. Also toarbeetle. Com- 
pare wabble'^. 
'Warble-fly (war'bl-fli), «. A fly whose larva 
produces warbles. Thus, Hypodenna bovis is the war- 
ble-fly of the ox. Synonymous in part with 6y(-/)/. The 
latter word, however, is applied to all (Estridse. 
■warbler (war'bl6r), )(. [iwarble^ + -erl.] 1. 
One who or that which warbles; a singer; a 
songster. 
In lulling strains the feathered warblers woo. 
Tickell, On Hunting. 
Dan Cliaucer, the first warbler. Tennyson, Fair Women. 
2. Specifically, any one of a great number of 
small oscine passerine birds, or dentirostral 
insessorial birds, of different families and many 
different genera, of both the Old World and the 
New. Especially— (o) A bird of the group composing the 
family Sylviidee, or Old World warblers, with scarcely any 
representatives in America. This is one of the most exten- 
sive and varied groups of its grade in ornithology, now 
generally rated as only a subfamily (Sylviinse) of Turdidse. 
These warblers are all small, active, sprightly birds, and 
many are remarkable for the clearness, sweetness, and flexi- 
bility of their song. Among typical warblers of the subfam- 
ily Sylviinm may be noted the species of Syluia, the lead- 
ing genus, as the blackcap and whitethroat ; of Melizophi- 
lus, aa the Dartford warbler ; of Regulus, as the goldcrest ; 
of Phi/Uoscopxi8, as the willow-warbler ; of Aedon, as the 
rufous warbler ; of Hypulais, as the icterine warbler ; of 
Acroeephalut, as the reed- or sedge-warbler; of Locus- 
tella, as the grasshopper- warbler ; of Cettia, as Cetti's 
warbler. Besides these, the accentor or hedge-sparrow, 
the nightingale {Daulias luncinia), the reobreast (L'l-iftha- 
aii rxibecula), the bluethroat, redstart, wbinchat, stone- 
chat, etc., have been brought under the definition ot war- 
bler, as members of the sylviine group. (6) In the United 
States, a bird of a different family, the American warblers, 
Dendroecidse or Mniotiltida, a smaller and more com- 
pact group than the Syhiidx, though the species are still 
very numerous and diversified. Few of tliem are noted 
for musical ability. The leading representatives of the 
American warblers are the numerous wood-warblers of 
the genus Dendrtxca ; the wonn-eating warblei-s, Helmin- 
thenm and Helminthophaga ; the creeping warblers, J/nio- 
tUta and Panda; the ground-warblers, as Geo(/(£j/^"«; the 
chat, Icteria; the water-thrushes, Seiunts; the fly-catching 
warblers, Myiodioctes, Setupliaya, and many others ot trop- 
ical America. 
3. In iHujpipe music, an appoggiatura, or similar 
melodic embellishment. 
In the music performed ujion this instrument [the bag- 
pipej the players introduce among the simple notes of the 
tune a kind of apiwggiatura, con.sisting of a great number 
of rapid notes of peculiar embellishment, which they term 
warblera. Eiwyc. Brit., III. 236. 
Adelaide's warbler, Dendneca adelaid« (Baird, 1865), 
the representative in Porto Rico of Grace's and of the 
yellow throated warbler.— African Warblert (Latham, 
1783), the type species of the genus Sphenceacus, 5. a/ri- 
canus. Also called spotted yellow Hycatctier by Latham, 
formerly Muscicapa a/ra, Mutacilla or Sylria a/ricana, 
etc., and also placed in the genus Drynieeca by some 
authors. — Alpine warblert (Latham, 1783), a kind of 
hedge- warbler. Accentor atpinus, of central and southern 
Europe, occasionally found in Great Britain. This bird 
was also called collared stare by I.atham the same year, 
having been described by Scopoli in 1769 as Stumus 
coKa™.— Aquatic warbler (Latham, 1783), one of the 
reed-warblers, probably Acrocephalus aquaticus: formerly 
called Sf/loia or Salicaria or Calaniodtita aquatica. — Au- 
dubon's warbler, Dewlnfca auduboni, the western rep- 
resentative of the yellowrump or myrtle-bird, and equally 
abundant. It differs chiefly in having the throat yellow 
instead of white. Also called western yelloiorump. — 
Autumnal warbler, the young of the bay-breasted war- 
bler, mistaken for a distinct species. A. Wilson, 1811.— 
Azure warbler, the cerulean warbler. — Babbling war- 
blert (lAtham, 1783), the lesser whitethroat, Sylcia eur- 
rtu-a. Sec whitethroat. 1.— Bacbman's warbler [named 
after the American naturalist John B«c/i»i«?i (1790-1874)], 
Iletinint/iophaga hachmani of the southern rnited States 
and some of the West Indies. (Audubon, IHM.) It is one 
of the swamp-warblers, and still very rare, though it has 
been quite recently found to be common in some localities. 
— Barred warbler, Sylcia nisoria of Eui-ope, Asia, and 
Africa.— Bay-breasted warbler, Dendra-ca castanea of 
eastern pai'ts of North America. The adult male has the 
whole Ijrcast chestnut.— Belted warblert, the yellow- 
rumped warbler. L«(/m7rt, 178;i; Pennant, 1785.— Black- 
and-white warbler, the creeping warbler. Mniotilta 
varia : more fully called hlack-nml-white creepiwi warbler 
OT creepfr, also whitepotl warbler. See cut under Mnio- 
(i/(a. — Black-and- yellow warbler, Dendrwea macu- 
losa. See cut under opoMct/. — Blackbumian warbler, 
Demlrceca blackbumim. the prometheua warbler, in adult 
plumage extensively black varied with white, the brciist 
and some parts about the head of a flanung orange. It 
is the most richly colored of the warblers, and is common 
in many i>art8 of North America. It was named l)y La- 
tham in 1783 after a Xli-a. Blackburn of London.— Black- 
capped warbler, the l>Iackcap, Sylcia (oftener Cur- 
ruca) atricapilla, of nearly all Europe, and parts of Asia 
and Africa.— Black-headed warblert, the American 
redstart, Setophaya ruticiUa. See cut tnuler redstart. 
Latham, 1793; Pennant, I78.i.— Black-poll warbler, 
Veniiro'ea striata, when adult having the whole crown 
black, the upper parts olivaceous streaked with black, 
and the under parts white streaked with black alon^ the 
sides. In young plumage it is hardly to be ilistinguished 
from the bay-breasted warbler. It is very wide-ranging, 
from (Jrcenland and Alaska through most of America 
(probably to Chili). It was originally described in 1772 
by J. K, Forster from Hudson's Bay as the striped fly- 
warbler 
ca(cAer.— Black-throated blue warbler, Dendraeca ex- 
rulescens, of eastern North America, remarkable for the 
uuusual difference of the sexes in plumage. The male 
is blue, white below, with black throat and a peculiar 
white space on the wing ; the female is chiefly greenish 
above and yellowish below, with traces of the character- 
istic wing-mark.— Black-throated gray warbler, i)oi- 
draeca nigrescens, of western parts of the United States 
and Mexico. The adult male is bluish-ash above with a 
few black streaks, below white streaked on the sides with 
black, the head black with white stripes and a small bright- 
yellow spot before the eye. — Black-throated green 
warbler, Dendrosca virens, one of the most abundant 
wood-warblers of eastern North America. The adult male 
is olivaceous-green above, below extensively black, with 
much golden yellow on the sides of the head, and white on 
the wings and tail. The length is 5 inches. It is one of a 
group of warblers having several representatives in west- 
ern North America. See cut under i)fn(/ra'ca. — Black- 
throated warbler, the black-throated blue warbler. 
Latham, 1783; Pennant, 1786.— Blanford's warbler, Syl- 
via blan/ordi, of which only one specimen is known, from 
Abyssinia. Seebohm.— Bloody -Bide or bloody-sided 
warblert. (a) The chestnut-sided warbler. Pennant, 1785. 
(6) One of the golden warblers, Dendroeca ruficapilla, of 
the West Indies. Latham, 1783. — Blue-eyed yellow 
warbler, the sununer yellow-bird, Dfiidrceca sestica. — 
Blue golden-winged warbler, Helminthophaga chiys- 
optera, a common swamp-warbler of the eastern Unite<l 
States and Canada. See cut under Helminthophaga.— 
Blue-green warbler, the cerulean warbler in immature 
plumage, or the female of that species. — Blue Mountain 
warbler, an American warl)ler so named by A. Wilson in 
1812, and never since identified. It was found in the Blue 
Mountains of Pennsylvania — Blue-throated Warbler 
(Latham, 1783), the bluethroat, originally described by 
Edwards in 1743 as the bluethroat redstart, later variously 
called MotacUla suecica, Sylcia suecica, Sylcia cyanecula, 
Cyanecula suecica, etc., all of which names are shared 
by a related species or variety. See cut under bluethroat. 
— Blue-Winged yellow warbler, Helminthophaga 
pinus, a common swamp-warbler of the eastern parts of 
the United States, originally described by Edwards (before 
Linnteus) as the pine-creeper. — Blue yellOW-backed 
warbler, Parula (or Compsothlypis) americana. See Pa- 
rifia.- Bonaparte's fly-catching warbler, the younK 
of the Canadian fly-catching warbler, mistaken by Amlu- 
bon for a different species in 1831, and dedicated to Prince 
Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803-.57). — Booted warbler, 
a tree-warbler, Uypolais coiiV/ara.— Bourbon warblert 
(Latham, 1783), the yellow-rumped creeper (Latham, 1781); 
a white-eye or silver-eye, Zosterops borbonica, peculiar to 
the Island of E^uniou.— Bowman's warbler.Si/ivia mys- 
tacea of Persia, Palestine, and Abyssinia.— Bush-war- 
blers, the members of the genus Cettia, having only ten 
rectrices. There are about 12 species, with one exception 
confined to Asia. The exception is Cetti's warbler, C. cetti, 
which extends throughout the Mediterranean region, ami 
was originally described in 1776, by the naturalist whose 
name it bears, as wngnuolo di Jiume, which became the 
buscarle of Buffon and Daubenton. See cut under Cettia.— 
Caffrarian warblert (Ijitham, 1783X the so-called red- 
tailed thrush of Latham (1783), fomierly Motacilla or Syl- 
via caffra, now known as Cossypha cafra (and Bessonomis 
ptontc«riui).— Canadian fly-catohlng warbler, Jfj/io- 
dioctes canadensis, abundant in ea.stem parts of North 
America. Also called Canada and spotted ftyratcher. The 
upper parts are bluish-ash varied with black, and tlie under 
pai-ts are yellow with black streaks on the breast.— Cana- 
dian warbler. («) The black-throated blue warl)ler. (i) 
The Canadian fly-catching warbler.— Cape May warbler, 
Dendrceca tigrina, formerly Sylvia maritima: so named 
by A. Wilson, in 1812, from a locality in New Jersey where 
he found it. In full plumage it is one of the handsomest 
of the wood-warblers, and has peculiarities which have 
caused a genu3(Peri8soglossa) to be i)ased upon it.— Car- 
bonated warbler, an American warbler so named by Au- 
dubon in 1831, and never since Identified. More fully called 
carbonated sicamp-warbler, also dusky warbler. — Ceru- 
lean warbler. See certdean.— Cetti's warbler, one of 
the bush-warblers.— Chestnut-bellied warblert (La- 
tham, 1783X an Asiatic redstart, RuticiUa (formerly Sylcia) 
erythroyastra. — Chestnut-Sided warbler, Bendrotca 
pemuylvanica of the eastern United States and Canada, 
having, when adult, the under parts pure-white with a 
chain of chestnut streak.s along each side, and the crown 
rich-yellow,- Chiff-chaff warbler, Phi/lloscopus rv/us. 
See cut under c/itjf-c/m//;- Children's warblert, the fe- 
male or young summer yellow-bird, Dendra-ca mstiva. Au- 
dubon, 1831.— Cingalese warblert (Latham, 1783), the 
green warbler of Brown (l77t)) and yellow-bellied creeper 
of Latham (1787), one of the yectariniidfe, .inthothrepten 
phcenicotis, extending from Bhutan to Malacca and the 
Sunda Islands, but not known in Ceylon.— Clstlcoline 
warbler, a gi-aas-warbler ; one of a very large and loose 
group of Old World warbler-like birds, of which the leading 
genera, in numbers of species, are Cisticola or Drymoeca, 
with twelve rectrices, anil Prinia with ten (as in the genus 
Cettia). The group is badly defined, and is now generally 
thrown into the so-called ornithological waste-basket (7'i- 
meliida-). Most of the species of the three genera named 
have been placed in each of the others, and Drymoeca 
has practically included the members of liotli. Among 
notable members of the group are the tailor-warblers 
or tailor-birds (see Orthotomus, Sutoria, and tailtyr-bird , 
with cuts), with twelve rectrices, and the species of 
Suya (which see), with ten rectrices. The group is best 
developed in Africa and Asia. Cisticola eur.\-itans (with 
thirty technical synonyms) extends from sttuthern Eu- 
roi)e, throughout Africa and through the warmer parts 
of Asia, to the Indti-Malayan islands; C. subruficapilla 
(with more than thirty synonyms) inhabits most of 
Africa.— Citrine warblert (Latham, 1783), the remark- 
able New Zealand Acanthisitta chloris. Sec Xniicidif. 
— Citron warbler, the summer yellow-bird, Vendro'ca 
sestiva. Swainson aiul 7fic/(rtr(i;fon, 1831.- Connecticut 
warbler, Oporornis agilis, a ground-warliler so named 
by Wilson hi 1812, common in eastenj parts of the United 
States, especially in the fall.— Creeping warblers, the 
American warblers of the genera Miiiotilta and Parula. 
See cut under jV;/iori';(a.— Dartford warbler (Latham, 
1783), tlie Motacilla undata of Boddacrt. 1783 (l)a8ed on 
the piltechou of Daubenton, Planches Enlunnnt^es, 606, 
