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Warn v. t. (Written also wern, worn) To refuse. (Obs.)

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.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Warn" Quotes from Famous Books

... people that inspired confidence—a graceful gentleness, a certain childlike ease. And besides, they looked so frail that I could fancy myself flinging the whole dozen of them about like nine-pins. But I made a sudden motion to warn them when I saw their little pink hands feeling at the Time Machine. Happily then, when it was not too late, I thought of a danger I had hitherto forgotten, and reaching over the bars of the machine I unscrewed the little levers that would set it in motion, and put these in ...

— The Time Machine • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

... Constance. "A pirate! I thought so," she exclaimed, with an ecstatic gesture. "I shall make it my business to warn everybody." ...

— Queechy, Volume II • Elizabeth Wetherell

... warn them hither presently before me, and if the hour of your fellow's resurrection be come, bring him too. But forward, forward, when thou has ...

— Every Man In His Humour • Ben Jonson

... for Barentin!... If I see the least sign that this little fellow is going to give me the slip, leave me for a minute—if it looks as though he were going to warn the authorities—I know someone who will take to flight ...

— A Nest of Spies • Pierre Souvestre

... landed them at the South Meadow, refusing all recompense with fierce words. Motherly old ladies whose families were off their hands, and who took in the situation at a glance, used to engage Mr. Molyneux in conversation in order to warn him about Nestie's flannels and the necessity of avoiding damp at nightfall. And many who never spoke to them, and would have repudiated the idea of sentiment with scorn, had a tender heart and a sense of the tears of things as the pair, strange and lonely, yet contented and happy, ...

— Young Barbarians • Ian Maclaren

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