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▪ I. † warre Obs.
Also 5 werre, 6 war.
[repr. OE. wearr str. masc., recorded only in the sense ‘callosity’; but cf. wearriht full of callosities, also of a tree, knotty (see warried a.). Cf. Flem. warre fem., weer masc., callosity, knot in wood.]
A knot in a tree or in timber.
[c725Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) C 161 Callos weorras uel ill. c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 356 Ða wearras and ða swylas ðe beoð on mannes handum oððe on oðrum limum.] c1407Lydg. Reson & Sens. 5428 The tother [bow]..Ful of knottys and of skarrys, The tymber is so ful of warrys. c1440Promp. Parv. 516/2 Warre, or knobbe of a tre, vertex. 1483Cath. Angl. 409/1 A Werre [Addit. MS. Warre] of a tree, vertex. 1513Douglas æneis xii. xii. 212 Bot festynnit sa is in the war the grip That by na maner fors..Furth of the stok the schaft vp pull he mycht. 1530Palsgr. 287/1 Warre or knobbe of a tree, neu.
Hence † warred a. having knots. (Cf. warried a.)
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. lvii. (1495) l iij b/1 The ouer endes of the bones..ben warryd wyth grete knottes. Ibid. xvii. xx. O ij/2 Boxe growyth in hote places and stony and is therfore harde and sadly warrid [Tollemache MS. warred].
▪ II. warre
obs. f. war and ware (n., a., and v.). |