Hypertext Webster Gateway: "warning"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Warning \Warn"ing\, a.
Giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing; as, a
warning voice.
That warning timepiece never ceased. --Longfellow.
{Warning piece}, {Warning wheel} (Horol.), a piece or wheel
which produces a sound shortly before the clock strikes.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Warning \Warn"ing\, n.
1. Previous notice. ``At a month's warning.'' --Dryden.
A great journey to take upon so short a warning.
--L'Estrange.
2. Caution against danger, or against faults or evil
practices which incur danger; admonition; monition.
Could warning make the world more just or wise.
--Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Warn \Warn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Warned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Warning}.] [OE. warnen, warnien, AS. warnian, wearnian, to
take heed, to warn; akin to AS. wearn denial, refusal, OS.
warning, wernian, to refuse, OHG. warnen, G. warnen to warn,
OFries. warna, werna, Icel. varna to refuse; and probably to
E. wary. ????.]
1. 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.'' --Dryden.
Cornelius the centurion . . . was warned from God by
an holy angel to send for thee. --Acts x. 22.
Who is it that hath warned us to the walls? --Shak.
2. 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.'' --Dryden.
3. To ward off. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
warning
adj : serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an
exemplary jail sentence" [syn: {admonitory}, {cautionary},
{exemplary}, {monitory}, {warning(a)}]
n 1: a message informing of danger
2: cautionary advice [syn: {admonition}, {monition}, {word of
advice}]
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