English Dictionary: war whoop | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
War \War\, n. [OE. & AS. werre; akin to OHG. werra scandal, quarrel, sedition, werran to confound, mix, D. warren, G. wirren, verwirren, to embroil, confound, disturb, and perhaps to E. worse; cf. OF. werre war, F. querre, of Teutonic origin. Cf. {Guerrilla}, {Warrior}.] 1. A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities. Men will ever distinguish war from mere bloodshed. --F. W. Robertson. Note: As war is the contest of nations or states, it always implies that such contest is authorized by the monarch or the sovereign power of the nation. A war begun by attacking another nation, is called an offensive war, and such attack is aggressive. War undertaken to repel invasion, or the attacks of an enemy, is called defensive. 2. (Law) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason. 3. Instruments of war. [Poetic] His complement of stores, and total war. --Prior. 4. Forces; army. [Poetic] On their embattled ranks the waves return, And overwhelm their war. --Milton. 5. The profession of arms; the art of war. Thou art but a youth, and he is a man of war from his youth. --1 Sam. xvii. 33. 6. a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility. [bd]Raised impious war in heaven.[b8] --Milton. The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart. --Ps. lv. 21. {Civil war}, a war between different sections or parties of the same country or nation. {Holy war}. See under {Holy}. {Man of war}. (Naut.) See in the Vocabulary. {Public war}, a war between independent sovereign states. {War cry}, a cry or signal used in war; as, the Indian war cry. {War dance}, a dance among savages preliminary to going to war. Among the North American Indians, it is begun by some distinguished chief, and whoever joins in it thereby enlists as one of the party engaged in a warlike excursion. --Schoolcraft. {War field}, a field of war or battle. {War horse}, a horse used in war; the horse of a cavalry soldier; especially, a strong, powerful, spirited horse for military service; a charger. {War paint}, paint put on the face and other parts of the body by savages, as a token of going to war. [bd]Wash the war paint from your faces.[b8] --Longfellow. {War song}, a song of or pertaining to war; especially, among the American Indians, a song at the war dance, full of incitements to military ardor. {War whoop}, a war cry, especially that uttered by the American Indians. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Warp \Warp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Warped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Warping}.] [OE. warpen; fr. Icel. varpa to throw, cast, varp a casting, fr. verpa to throw; akin to Dan. varpe to warp a ship, Sw. varpa, AS. weorpan to cast, OS. werpan, OFries. werpa, D. & LG. werpen, G. werfen, Goth. wa[a1]rpan; cf. Skr. vrj to twist. [?][?][?][?]. Cf. {Wrap}.] 1. To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. 2. To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise. The planks looked warped. --Coleridge. Walter warped his mouth at this To something so mock solemn, that I laughed. --Tennyson. 3. To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert. This first avowed, nor folly warped my mind. --Dryden. I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy. --Addison. We are divested of all those passions which cloud the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men. --Southey. 4. To weave; to fabricate. [R. & Poetic.] --Nares. While doth he mischief warp. --Sternhold. 5. (Naut.) To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object. 6. To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.] 7. (Agric.) To let the tide or other water in upon (lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance. [Prov. Eng.] 8. (Rope Making) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns. 9. (Weaving) To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam. {Warped surface} (Geom.), a surface generated by a straight line moving so that no two of its consecutive positions shall be in the same plane. --Davies & Peck. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Warp \Warp\, v. i. 1. To turn, twist, or be twisted out of shape; esp., to be twisted or bent out of a flat plane; as, a board warps in seasoning or shrinking. One of you will prove a shrunk panel, and, like green timber, warp, warp. --Shak. They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another, to keep it from casting, or warping. --Moxon. 2. to turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; to deviate; to swerve. There is our commission, From which we would not have you warp. --Shak. 3. To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects. A pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind. --Milton. 4. To cast the young prematurely; to slink; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.] 5. (Weaving) To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Warp \Warp\, n. [AS. wearp; akin to Icel. varp a casting, throwing, Sw. varp the draught of a net, Dan. varp a towline, OHG. warf warp, G. werft. See {Warp}, v.] 1. (Weaving) The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof. 2. (Naut.) A rope used in hauling or moving a vessel, usually with one end attached to an anchor, a post, or other fixed object; a towing line; a warping hawser. 3. (Agric.) A slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed. --Lyell. 4. A premature casting of young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.] 5. Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See {Cast}, n., 17. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright. 6. [From {Warp}, v.] The state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board. {Warp beam}, the roller on which the warp is wound in a loom. {Warp fabric}, fabric produced by warp knitting. {Warp frame}, [or] {Warp-net frame}, a machine for making warp lace having a number of needles and employing a thread for each needle. {Warp knitting}, a kind of knitting in which a number of threads are interchained each with one or more contiguous threads on either side; -- also called {warp weaving}. {Warp lace}, [or] {Warp net}, lace having a warp crossed by weft threads. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Warp \Warp\, v. t. (A[89]ronautics) To twist the end surfaces of (an a[89]rocurve in an a[89]roplane) in order to restore or maintain equilibrium. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wharf \Wharf\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wharfed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wharfing}.] 1. To guard or secure by a firm wall of timber or stone constructed like a wharf; to furnish with a wharf or wharfs. 2. To place upon a wharf; to bring to a wharf. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wharf \Wharf\, n.; pl. {Wharfs}or {Wharves}. [AS. hwerf, hwearf, a returning, a change, from hweorfan to turn, turn about, go about; akin to D. werf a wharf, G. werft, Sw. varf a shipbuilder's yard, Dan. verft wharf, dockyard, G. werben to enlist, to engage, woo, OHG. werban to turn about, go about, be active or occupied, Icel. hverfa to turn, Goth. hwa[a1]rban, hwarb[d3]n, to walk. Cf. {Whirl}.] 1. A structure or platform of timber, masonry, iron, earth, or other material, built on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, or the like, and usually extending from the shore to deep water, so that vessels may lie close alongside to receive and discharge cargo, passengers, etc.; a quay; a pier. Commerce pushes its wharves into the sea. --Bancroft. Out upon the wharfs they came, Knight and burgher, lord and dame. --Tennyson. Note: The plural of this word is generally written wharves in the United States, and wharfs in England; but many recent English writers use wharves. 2. [AS. hwearf.] The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea. [Obs.] [bd]The fat weed that roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf.[b8] --Shak. {Wharf boat}, a kind of boat moored at the bank of a river, and used for a wharf, in places where the height of the water is so variable that a fixed wharf would be useless. [U. S.] --Bartlett. {Wharf rat}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The common brown rat. (b) A neglected boy who lives around the wharfs. [Slang] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wharp \Wharp\, n. A kind of fine sand from the banks of the Trent, used as a polishing powder. [Eng.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Whereby \Where*by"\, adv. 1. By which; -- used relatively. [bd]You take my life when you take the means whereby I life.[b8] --Shak. 2. By what; how; -- used interrogatively. Whereby shall I know this? --Luke i. 18. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Whereof \Where*of"\, adv. 1. Of which; of whom; formerly, also, with which; -- used relatively. I do not find the certain numbers whereof their armies did consist. --Sir J. Davies. Let it work like Borgias' wine, Whereof his sire, the pope, was poisoned. --Marlowe. Edward's seven sons, whereof thyself art one. --Shak. 2. Of what; -- used interrogatively. Whereof was the house built? --Johnson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wrap \Wrap\, v. t. [A corrupt spelling of rap.] To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt. Lo! where the stripling, wrapt in wonder, roves. --Beattie. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wrap \Wrap\, n. A wrapper; -- often used in the plural for blankets, furs, shawls, etc., used in riding or traveling. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wrap \Wrap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wrapped}or {Wrapt}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wrapping}.] [OE. wrappen, probably akin to E. warp. [fb]144. Cf. {Warp}.] 1. To wind or fold together; to arrange in folds. Then cometh Simon Peter, . . . and seeth . . . the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. --John xx. 6, 7. Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. --Bryant. 2. To cover by winding or folding; to envelop completely; to involve; to infold; -- often with up. I . . . wrapt in mist Of midnight vapor, glide obscure. --Milton. 3. To conceal by enveloping or infolding; to hide; hence, to involve, as an effect or consequence; to be followed by. Wise poets that wrap truth in tales. --Carew. {To be wrapped up in}, to be wholly engrossed in; to be entirely dependent on; to be covered with. Leontine's young wife, in whom all his happiness was wrapped up, died in a few days after the death of her daughter. --Addison. Things reflected on in gross and transiently . . . are thought to be wrapped up in impenetrable obscurity. --Locke. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Warba, MN (city, FIPS 68080) Location: 47.13577 N, 93.27090 W Population (1990): 137 (69 housing units) Area: 8.3 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 55793 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Warp {OS/2} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
wrb {Web Request Broker} |