warrant 
genuine, or as represented: as, to warrant a 
horse; warranted goods. 
New titles warrant not a play for new, 
The subject being old. 
Fletcher (and another\ False One, Frol. 
What hope can we have of this whole Councell to war- 
rani us a matter 400. years at least above their time ? 
Miltoiiy Prelatical Episcopacy. 
7. To support by authority or proof; afford 
ground for; authorize; justify; sanction; sup- 
port; allow. 
How far I have proceeded, 
Or how far further shall, is warranted 
By a commission from the consistory. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., ii. 4. 91. 
Warrant not so much ill by your example 
To those that live beneath you. 
SItirley, Love's Cruelty, i. 2. 
If the sky 
Warrant thee not to go for Italy. 
May, tr. of Lucan'a Pharsalia, v. 
Reason warranto it, and we may safely receive it for 
true. Locke. 
There are no truths which a sound judgment can be war- 
ranted in despising. 
Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. ly. 
warrantable (wor'an-ta-bl), «. [< tvarraut + 
-able.'} 1. Capable of being warranted, in any 
sense; justifiable; defensible; lawful. 
In ancient times all women which had not husbands nor 
fathei-s to govern them had their tutors, without whose 
luitliiirity there was no act wiiich they did wa)-rantable. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 73. 
It is not a warrantable curiosity to examine the verity 
of Scripture by the concordance of human history. 
Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, i. 29. 
He can not be fairly Ijlanied, and not a pound should be 
deducted from his warrantalile value, simply because he 
now did what any other young horse in tlie world would 
have felt to be his proper course. 
Ji. D. Btackm^rt, Cripps the Carrier, liii. 
Speeifleally — 2. Of sufficient age to be hunted : 
as, a toarraiitable stag (tliat is, one in its sixth 
year). 
It will be either by great good luck or by great pei'se- 
verance on the huntsman's part that a warrantable deer 
will be found at all while there is light to hunt him by. 
Nineteenth Century, XX. 609. 
wairantableness (wor'an-ta-bl-nes), «. The 
character of being warrantable. Barrow. 
warrantably (wor'an-ta-bli), adr. In a war- 
rantable manner; in ii manner that may be 
justified ; justifiably. Thomas Adams, in Ellis's 
Lit. Letters, p. 150. 
warrantee (wor-an-te')-"- [^ warran/ + -eel.] 
One to whom a warranty is given. 
warranter (wor'an-ter), «. [< warrant + -e)i. 
Vjt. warrantor.'] One who waiTants. Speeifleally 
—ia) One wlio gives authority or legally empowers, {h) 
One who assures, or covenants to jissure ; one who con- 
tracts to secure another in a right or to make good any 
defect of title or quality : as, tlie trarranter of a horse. 
warrantiset, warrantizet (wor'an-tiz), h. 
[Early mod. E. Silso warraiidise, icarrandicc (see 
warrandice) ; < ME. waranti/se, < OF. *warantise, 
wareiUise, tcarandisc, garantine, (jarantize (ML. 
reflex warandisia), < warantir, warrant: see 
warrant.] 1. WaiTant; security; warranty. 
And yf thou may in any wyse 
Make thy chartyr on warantyse 
To thyne heyres & assygnes alle-so. 
This shalle a wyse purchasser doo. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall). p. 24. 
There 's none protector of the realm but I. 
Break up the gates, I'll be your warrantize. 
Sliak., 1 Hen. VI., i. 3. i:i. 
2. 'Guaranty; pledge: promise. 
In the very refuse of thy deeds 
There is such strength and warmntive of skill 
That, in my mind, thy worst all best exceeds. 
Shak., Sonnets, ci. 
warrantiset (wor'an-tiz), r. t. [Also warran- 
li:e ; < ME. irarrantisen ; < warraiitise, ».] 1. 
To save ; defend. 
*'Ye,"<iuod Orienx, "but yef I mayhaue l>ailly ouer his 
Ijody, he shall l)e so deffouled that ther ne shall nothinge 
in the worlde hym warrantue.^' 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 269. 
2. To warrant; pledge; guarantee. 
You wil undertake to warrantize and make good imto 
vs those penalties an'l forfaitures which shal unto vs ap- 
pertaine. Ilakliajt'n Voyagea, I. 144. 
warrant-officer (wor'ant-ofi-ser), n. An of- 
ficer who acts under a waiTant from a depart- 
ment of the government, and not from the sov- 
ereign or head of the state as in the ease of 
commissioned officers. Gunners, boatswains, sail- 
makers, and carpenters in the navy, and master-gunners 
and quartermaster-sergeants in the army, are examples of 
warrant-officers. 
warrantor (wor'an-tor), ». [< OF. "waranteor, 
wairenteor,8.\so*garanteor, garantor,fjaranteiir, 
etc. (cf. guarantor), < warrantir, warrant: see 
warrant, v.] One who warrants: correlative of 
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warrantee: a form chiefly used in legal phrase- 
ology. 
warranty (wor'an-ti), n. ; pi. warranties (-tiz). 
[Formerly also roarranf/e; < OF. warantie, later 
garantie (> E. guaranty, guarantee) (= Pr. ga- 
reiitia, guaren tia, guercn tia = Sp. garan tia = Pg. 
garantia = It. guarentia, ML. reflex warantia), 
<roaranWr, warrant: see warrant. Ci. guaranty, 
guarantee.] 1. Authority; justificatory man- 
date or precept ; warrant. 
From your love I have a warrarUy 
To unburden all my plots and purposes. 
Shak.,M.. of v., i. 1. 132. 
Nor farther notice, Arete, we crave 
Than thine approval's sovereign warranty. 
B. Jowton, Cynthia's Revels, v. 3. 
There is no scientific warranty for saying that Matter 
is absolutely indestructible, and more than one considera- 
tion indicates tliat the structure of Matter may be such 
as to denote that in its present form it has had a begin- 
ning and may have an end. 
A. Daniell, Prin. of Physics, InL, p. 7. 
2+. Security; assurance; guaranty; warrant. 
The stamp was a warranty of the public. Locke. 
3. In law, a statement, express or implied, of 
something which the party making it under- 
takes shall be part of the contract and in con- 
firmation or assurance of a direct object of the 
contract, but which is yet only collateral to 
that object. More specifically— (a) In the law of real 
property : (1) Formerly, a covenant in a grant of freehold, 
binding the grantor and his heirs to supply other lands of 
equal value, should the grantee be evicted from those 
granted by any paramount title. (2) In modern practice, 
an assurance in a deed that the premises are conveyed 
in fee simple absolute except as otherwise specified, "the 
effect being that, if the title fail, the grantee is exonerated 
from paying any purchase-money remaining unpaid, or 
may recover damages, the grantor's heirs and devisees 
t)eing liable to the extent only that they may have received 
assets from the grantor, (h) In the law of insurance, a 
statement on the part of the insured or the applicant for 
insurance, forming a part of the contract, and on the actual 
truth of which, irrespective of its materiality, the validity 
of the policy depends, (c) In the law of sales, an assurance 
or engagement by the seller, express or implied, that he 
will be answerable for the trutli of some supposed quality 
of the thing sold, as its soundness, or its fitness for the 
buyer's purpose, or its title.— Collateral warranty, in 
old Eny. law, a warranty which did not come from the 
same ancestor from whom the lands would have descend- 
ed, but descended in a line collateral U) that of the land; 
distinguished from lineal warranty, where the land and 
the warranty were descended from the same ancestor.— 
General warranty, a warranty against the acts and 
claims of all persons whomsoever, as distinguished from 
a warranty against claims of specified persons, called ftpe- 
cial warranty. — Implied warranty, a walTanty not ex- 
l>ressed in the contract, but resulting by operation of law 
from the making of the contract: as, where one sells a 
thing in his possession, there is an implied warranty on 
Ills part that lie has ownei'ship. — Lineal warranty. See 
collateral warranty. — TOVOUClltO warranty. See vouch. 
warranty (wor'an-ti), r. t. ; pret. and pp. war- 
rantied, p-pr. warranti/ing. \_< warranty, n.] To 
warrant; guarantee. 
warrayt (wor'a), v. t. [Early mod. E. also war- 
reij ; < ME. werrcien, werreyen, < OF. *werreier, 
guerreier, F. guerroi/rr = Pr. guerreiar = Sp. 
gwerrear = It. guerreggiare, make war, < werre, 
guerre, war: see war^. Hence ult. rrarrior.] 
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 Russye. 
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 Tasso, i. 6. 
warret. An obsolete spelling of war^, war^. 
warree^, n. [Native name.] The taguicati, 
or white-lipped peecary, Dicotyles labkitus. 
warree'^, «. The common millet, Panicum mili- 
aceum : same as l-adi-lane. 
warren (wor'en), «. [< ME. warrayne, wareine 
(= D. warande, a park), < OF. warenne, varenne, 
rarcne, garenue (ML. wareniia), a waiTen or pre- 
serve for rabbits, hares, fish, etc., < warir, keep, 
defend: see ware'^, warrant.] 1. A piece of 
ground appropriated to the breeding and pres- 
ervation of rabbits or other game ; a place where 
rabbits abound. 
A town gentleman has lamed a rabbit in my warren. 
Landor, Injag. Conv., Southeyand Landor, ii. 
2. In Eng. law, a franchise or place privileged 
by prescription or grant from the crown, for 
keeping beasts and fowls of warren, which 
are hares, rabbits, partridges, and pheasants, 
though some add quails, woodcocks, and water- 
fowl. The warren is the next franchise in degree to the 
park ; and a forest, which is the liigbest in dignity, com- 
prehends a chase, a park, and a freewarren. 
Vncoupled thei wenden 
Botlie in wareine and in w.aste where hem leue lyketli. 
Pier« Plomnan (B), Prol., 1. 163. 
3. A preserve for fish in a river. 
warrok 
warrener (wor'en-er), n. [Formerly also war- 
riner; < ME. "wareiner, *warener, warner; < war- 
ren + -ej-l. Hence the surnames Warner, War- 
rener, and Warrender.] Thekeeperof awarren. 
He hath fought with a warrener. 
Shak., M. W. of W., i. 4. 28. 
warrenlte (wor'en-it), «. [Named after E. R. 
Warren, of Crested Butte, Colorado.] A sulphid 
of antimony and lead, occurring in wool-like ag- 
gregates of grayish-black acicular crystals. It 
is found at the Domingo mine,Gunnison county, 
Colorado. 
warrer (war'er), n. [< war'^ + -er^.] One who 
wars or makes war. 
Female warrers against modesty. 
E. W. Lane, Modem Egyptians, II. 168. 
warriangle (wor'i-ang"gl), n. [Also warian- 
gle; < ME. waryangle, weryangle (Se. wairingle, 
weirangle), < AS. "weargincel (Stratmann) = 
MLG. wargingel = OHG. warchengil (G. wiirg- 
engel), the butcher-bird, shrike; < AS. wearg, 
wearl; accursed, as a noun, a man acciirsed, 
an outlaw, wretch (see warry), + -incel, a dim. 
suffix, confused in SiLG. and G. with ertgel, an- 
gel, so that G. rcurgengel, a butcher-bird, is iden- 
tical in form with wiirgengel, a destroying angel 
(wiirgen, destroy, = E. worry: cf. worry and 
worry). Cf. MLG. worgel, a butcher-bird, from 
the same source.] A shrike or butcher-bird. 
[Obsolete or prov. Eng.] 
This somonour that was as ful of jangles 
As ful of venym been thise waryanglcs [vai-. weryangleg\ 
Chaucer, Friar's Tale, 1. 1X0. 
Warriani/leg be a kind of birdes, full of uoyse and very 
ravenous, preying upon others, which, when ttiey have ta- 
ken, they use to hang upon a thume or pricke, and teare 
tliem in pieces and devoure them. And the common 
opinion is, that the thorn whereupon tliey thus fasten 
them and eate them is afterward poysonsome. 
Speght, note under ameat in Cotgrave (ed. 1598). 
warrick (wor'ik), r. t. [ME. : cf. trarrok.] If. 
To fasten with a girth ; gird. 
.Sette my sadel vppon Soffre-til-I-seo-my-tyme, 
And lokethou warroke liim wel with swithefeolegurthhes. 
Pierit Plowman (A), iv. 19. 
2. To twitch (a cord) tight bv crossing it with 
another. Halliwell. [Prov. ^ng.] 
warrigal, n. Same as warragal. 
warrin (wor'in), n. The bhie-bellied brush- 
tougued parrot, Trichoglossus multicolor, a lory 
or lorikeet of Australia, of notably varied and 
brilliant colors. 
warring (war'ing), a. Adverse; conflicting; 
contradictory; antagonistic; hostile: as, war- 
ring opinions. 
warrior (wor'i-er or war'y^r), n. [Early mod. 
E. also warriour; < ME. werriour, werryour, 
werreyour, werraiour, wcrreour, weorreur, < 
OF. "wcrrcior, gucrroieor, guerroyeur, guerriur, 
guerrcor, etc., a warrior, one who wars, < *W€r- 
reier, guerreier, make war: see warray.] 1. 
A soldier ; a man engaged in warfare ; specifi- 
cally, one devoted to a military life ; in an es- 
pecially honorable sense, a brave or veteran 
soldier. 
This ilke senatour 
Was a ful worthi gentil tcerreyour. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 597. 
Kind kinsman, warriors all, adieu I 
Shxik., Hen. V.,iv. 3. K). 
And the stem joy which warriors feel 
In foeraen worthy of their steel. 
Scoff, L. of the L., v. 10. 
2. A humming-bird of the genus Oxypogon. 
Also called helmet-crest. 
warrior-ant (wor'i-er-ant), j(. An ant, Formica 
sanguinea, of Europe and North America; one 
of the slave-making ants which keep workers 
of other species in their nest. See soldier, 6. 
warrioress (wor'i-er-es or war'y^r-es), «. 
[Early mod. E. wa rriouresse ; < warrior + -ess.] 
A female warrior. Spenser, F. Q., V. vii. 27. 
[Kare.] 
warriourt, "■ An old spelling of warrior. 
warrish (war'ish).«. [< war^ + -ish^.] Mili- 
tant ; warlike. [Rare.] 
T know tlie rascals have a sin in petto. 
To rob the holy lady of Loretto; 
Attack her temple with their gmis so warrish. 
Wolcot (Peter Pindar), Epistle to the Pope. 
warri-warri (wor'i-wor'i), n. [A native name 
in Guiana.] A kind of fan made by the na- 
tives of Guiana from the leaves of the acuyuru- 
palm, Astrocnryum aculeatum. 
warrokt, ». [SIE. ; origin obscure.] A saddle- 
girth ; a surcingle. 
warrokt, r. t. [ME. warrolen; < warrok, ».] 
Same as warrick, 1. 
