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noun

Warning n.

Previous notice. "At a month's warning." "A great journey to take upon so short a warning."

Caution against danger, or against faults or evil practices which incur danger; admonition; monition. "Could warning make the world more just or wise."

verb

Warn v. t. (past & past part. warned; pres. part. warning)

To make ware or aware; to give previous information to; to give notice to; to notify; to admonish; hence, to notify or summon by authority; as, to warn a town meeting; to warn a tenant to quit a house. "Warned of the ensuing fight." "Cornelius the centurion... was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee." "Who is it that hath warned us to the walls?"

To give notice to, of approaching or probable danger or evil; to caution against anything that may prove injurious. "Juturna warns the Daunian chief of Lausus' danger, urging swift relief."

To ward off. (Obs.)

adjective

Warning adj. Giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing; as, a warning voice. "That warning timepiece never ceased."

Warning piece, Warning wheel (Horol.), a piece or wheel which produces a sound shortly before the clock strikes.

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Etymology of 'Warning'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Warning" Quotes from Famous Books

... forgotten by any one who has sailed on the rivers north of 20 Deg. south. If we step on shore, the 'Charadrius caruncula', a species of plover, a most plaguy sort of "public-spirited individual", follows you, flying overhead, and is most persevering in its attempts to give fair warning to all the animals within hearing to flee from the approaching danger. The alarm-note, "tinc-tinc-tinc", of another variety of the same family ('Pluvianus armatus' of Burchell) has so much of a metallic ring, that this bird is called "setula-tsipi", or hammering-iron. ...

— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone

... the warning, for the sky was bright and blue, broken only by a few gauzy white clouds which streaked it here and there. They rowed out about a mile, and then laying in their oars, lowered their grapnel and began to fish. The ...

— By Sheer Pluck - A Tale of the Ashanti War • G. A. Henty

... of wonder that he hardly realized the truths of his present situation. The man-of-war, in which everything was His Majesty's, sustained this feeling, and it was too sudden a change to expect such a man to abandon all his most cherished notions at a moment's warning. The irreverent exclamation of Captain Truck shocked him, and he did not fail to show as much by the disgust pictured in ...

— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper

... whom Conon entrusted the command of his fleet when he went to the court of the King of Persia.—In this passage the poet is warning his fellow-citizens not to alienate the goodwill of the allies by their disdain, but to know how to honour those among them who had distinguished ...

— The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al

... to find out and bear in mind the experience of other people, we can make use of it, as a warning and a guide, in much the same way as if it had happened to ourselves. If I have seen a boy try to run across the road in front of an automobile and stumble and get killed, it is not necessary for me to get killed in order to appreciate ...

— Heart and Soul • Victor Mapes (AKA Maveric Post)

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