(Isaiah). 2. To heat mentally; to make vehement (Dryden). To WARM. v. n. To grow less cold (Isaiah). WARMINGPAN. s. (warm and pan.) A covered brass pan for warming a bed by means of hot coals. WARMINSTER, a town in Wiltshire, with a market on Saturday, a woollen manufacture, and a great trade in malt. It has two churches, and is seated at the source of the Willy, 22 miles N. W. of Salisbury, and 96 W. by S. of London. WARMLY. ad. (from warm). 1. With gentle heat (Milton). 2. Eagerly; ardently. WA'RMNESS. WARMTH. s. (from warm.) 1. Gentle heat (Addison). 2. Zeal; passion; fervour of mind (Sprat). 3. Fancifulness; enthusiasm (Temple). ToWARN. v.a. (pænnian, Saxon; waernen, Dutch; warna, Swedish.) 1. To caution against any fault or danger; to give previous notice of ill (South). 2. To admonish of any duty to be performed, or practice or place to be avoided or forsaken (Acts). 3. To inform previously of good or bad (Dryden). WARNING. s. (from warn.) 1. Caution against faults or dangers; previous notice of ill (Wake). 2. Previous notice: in a sense indifferent (Duty of Man). WARP, in the manufactures, a name for the threads, whether of silk, wool, linen, hemp, &c. that are extended lengthwise on the weaver's loom; and across which the workman, by means of his shuttle, passes the threads of the woof, to form a cloth, ribaud, fustian, or the like. WARP, a small rope employed occasionally to remove a ship from one place to another, in a port, road, or river. And hence, To WARP, is to change the situation of a ship, by pulling her from one part of a harbour, &c. to some other, by means of warps, which are attached to buoys; to anchors sunk in the bottom; or to certain stations upon the shore, as posts, rings, trees, &c. The ship is accordingly drawn forwards to those stations, either by pulling on the warps by hand, or by the application of some purchase, as a tackle, windlass, or capstern, upon her deck. When this operation is performed by the ship's lesser anchors, these machines, together with their warps, are carried out in the boats alternately towards the place where the ship is endeavouring to arrive: so that when she is drawn up close to one anchor, the other is carried out to a competent distance before her, and being sunk, serves to fix the other warp, by which she is farther advanced, To WARP. v. n. (peaɲpan, Saxon; werpen, Dutch, to throw; whence we sometimes say the work casts.) 1. To change from the true situation of intestine motion; to change the position from one part to another (Moxon). 2. To lose its proper course of direction (Shakspeare). 3. To turn (Milton). To WARP. v. a. 1. To contract; to shrivel. 2. To turn aside from the true, direction (Watts). 3. It is used by Shakspeare to express the effect of frost. To WA'RRANT. v. n. (garantir, French.) 1. To support or maintain; to attest (Locke). 2. To give authority (Shakspeare). 3. To justify (South). 4. To exempt; to privilege; to secure (Sidney). 5. To declare upon surety (L'Estrange). WA'RRANT. s. (from the verb.) 1. A writ conferring some right or authority (Clarendon). 2. A writ giving the officer of justice the power of caption (Dryden). 3. A secure inviolable grant (Hooker). 4. A justificatory commission (Kettle.). 5. Attestation (South). 6. Right; regality: obsolete (Shakspeare). WARRANT, a præcipe under hand and seal to some officer, to bring any offender before the person granting it; and warrants of commitment are issued by the privy council, a secreiary of state, or justice of the peace, &c. where there has been a private information, or a witness had deposed against an offender. Wood's Inst. 614. Any one under the degree of nobility may be arrested for a misdemeanor, or any thing done against the peace of the kingdom, by warrant from a justice of the peace; but if the person is a peer of the realm, he must be apprehended for a breach of the peace by warrant out of B. R. Dalt. Just. 263. A constable ought not to execute a justice's warrant, where the warrant is unlawful, or the justice has no jurisdiction; if he does, he may be punished. Plowd. 394. But if any person abuses it, by throwing it in the dirt, &c. or refuses to execute a lawful warrant, it is a contempt of the king's process, for which the offender may be indicted and fined. Crompt. 149. A general warrant to apprehend all persons suspected, without naming or particularly describing any person in special, is illegal and void for its uncertainty; for it is the duty of the magistrate, and ought not to be left to the officer, to judge of the ground of the suspicion. Also a warrant to apprehend all persons guilty of such a crime, is no legal warrant; for the point upon which its authority rests, is a fact to be decided on a subsequent trial; namely, whether the person apprehended thereupon is guilty or not guilty. 4 Black. 291. A warrant may be lawfully granted by any justice for treason, felony, or præmunire, or any other offence against the peace; and it seems clear, that where a statute gives any one justice a jurisdiction over any offence, or a power to require any person to do a certain thing ordained by such a statute, it impliedly gives a power to every such justice to make out a warrant to bring before him any one accused of such offence, or compelled to do any thing ordained by such statute: for it cannot but be intended, that a statute which gives a person jurisdiction over an offence, means also to give him the power incident to all courts, of compelling the party to come before him. 2 Haw. 84. But in cases where the king is not a party, or where no corporal punishment is appointed, as in cases for servants' wages and the like, it seems that a summons is the more proper process; and for default of appearance, the justice may proceed; and so indeed it is often directed by special statutes. A warrant from any of the justices of the court of King's Bench extends over all the kingdom, and is tested or dated England; but a warrant of a justice of peace in one county, must be backed, that is, signed, by a justice of another county, before it can be executed there. And a warrant for apprehending an Euglish or a Scotch offender may be indorsed in the opposite kingdom, and the offender carried back to that part of the united kingdom in which the offence was committed. 4 Black. 291. WARRANT OF ATTORNEY, is an authority and power given by a client to his attorney, to appear and plead for him; or to suffer judg ment to pass against him by confessing the action, by nil dicit, non sum informatus, &c. WA'RRANTABLE. a. (from warrant.) Justifiable; defensible (South). WARRANTABLENESS. s. (from warrantable.) Justifiableness (Sidney). WA'RRANTABLY. ad. (from warrantable.) Justifiably (Wake). 1. WA'RRANTER. s. (from warrant.) One who gives authority. 2. One who gives security. WARRANTI'SE. s. (warrantiso, law Latin.) Authority; security (Shakspeare). WA'RRANTY. s. (warrantia, law Latin; garantie, garant, French.) 1. (In the common law.) A promise made in a deed by one man unto another, for himself and his heirs, to secure him and his heirs against all men, for the enjoying of any thing agreed of between them (Cowell). 2. Authority; justificatory mandate (Taylor). 3. Security (Locke). To WARRAY. v. a. (from war.) To make war upon (Fairfax). WARRE. a. (poɲn, Saxon.) Worse: obsolete (Spenser)." WARREN, a name applied to a privileged place, by prescription or grant from the king, in which to keep beasts or fowls of warren. These in ancient records were said to be the hare, the corey, the pheasant, and the partridge; but the word now applies to any particular district, or tract of land, appropriated to the breeding and preservation of rabbits as private property. These become a most valuable and profitable stock; paying a much greater annual rent than can be expected from a light and sandy soil, under any other mode of cultivation. There is a distinction between a warren and free warren. The franchise next in degree to a park, is a free warren, and appertains chiefly to the privilege of killing game within its boundaries. A warren, in its general signification, implies nothing farther than a peculiar spot for the numerous produc tion of conies, with which the neighbouring inhabitants and the markets of the metropolis are supplied; and these invariably pass under the denomination of rabbit warrens. WARREN, a town of Rhode Island, in Bristol county, which has a good trade, particularly in ship-building. It stands on Warren river and the N.E. part of Narraganset bay, ten miles S.S.E. of Providence. WA'RRENER. s. (from warren.) The keeper of a warren. WARRINGTON, a town in Lancashire, with a market on Wednesday, manufactures of canvas, cottons, checks, hardware, pins, and glass, and a considerable traffic in malt. Here are two churches, an excellent freeschool, and a large academy for the education of youth. The number of inhabitants in 1801 was 10,567. It is seated on the Mersey, over which is a bridge, 16 miles E. of Liverpool, and 182 N.N.W. of London. WARRIOUR. s. (from war.) A soldier; a military man. WARSAW, a city of Poland, lately the metropolis of that country, and in the palatinate of Masovia. It is built partly in a plain, and partly on a gentle rise from the Vistula; extending, with the suburbs of Kraka and Praga, over a vast extent of ground, and containing above 66,000 inhabitants. The streets are spacious, but ill paved; the churches and public buildings large and magnificent; the palaces of the nobility numerous and splendid; but the greatest part of the houses, particularly in the suburbs, are mean and ill-constructed wooden hovels. In the beginning of 1794, the empress of Russia put a garrison into this city, in order to compel the Poles to acquiesce in the usurpations she had in view; but this garrison was soon expelled by the citizens. The king of Prussia besieged Warsaw in July, but was compelled to raise the siege in September. It was undertaken by the Russians, who, in November, took by storm the suburb of Praga, massacred the inhabitants, and nearly reduced it to ashes. The immediate consequence was the surrender of the city to the Russians, who, in 1796, delivered it up to the king of Prussia. Toward the end of 1806 the French occupied this place; and by the treaty of Tilsit, the city, and this part of Poland, was given to Saxony, to be held under the title of the duchy of Warsaw. It is 170 miles S. of Konigsberg, and 180 E.N.E. of Breslau. Lon. 21.0 E. Lat. 52. 14. N. WART, a small knotty kind of tumor which most frequently rises on the skin of the hands. Many ridiculous cures have been suggested for them by old women, and these have been kept in countenance by the spontaneous disappearance of warts, which frequently happens. When a remedy is thought necessary, touching them once a day with tincture of muriated iron is a very good one. WARTED SNAKE, in amphibiology. See ACROCORDUS. WARTED PLANT. See VERUCOSE. WARTENBERG, a town of Silesia, capital of a lordship of the same name, with a castle. In 1742 it was entirely reduced to ashes, ex cept the old castle, which is now used as a brewhouse. It is 28 miles N E. of Breslau. Lon. 17. 50 E. Lat. 51. 19 N. WARTON (Joseph, D. D.), was born either towards the end of the year 1721, or in the beginning of the year1722. He was the eldest son of Thomas Warton, B. D. who had been fellow of Magdalen college, Oxford; poetry professor froin the year 1718 to 1728; and Vicar of Basingstoke in Hampshire, and of Cobham in Surrey. Where the subject of this memoir was born we have not learned, though, were we to hazard a conjecture, we would say that it was in Oxford, as his father probably resided in that city during his professorship. ceived the first part of his education at Winchester, and then went to Trinity college, Oxford. In 1745 he published five pastoral eclogues, in which he beautifully describes the miseries of war, to which the shepherds of Germany were exposed. But his Triumph of Isis, in answer to Mr. Mason's Isis, chiefly exalted his reputation. In 1751 he succeeded to a fellowship of his college, and in 1756 he was elected professor of poetry, which office he held for the usual term of ten years.-In 1771 he was was presented to the living of Kiddington in Oxfordshire. His History of English Poetry, the first volume of which appeared in 1774, evinces a singular combination of extraordinary talents and attainments. In Our knowledge of the private history of Dr. 1785, upon the death of Mr. Whitehead, the Warton is indeed extremely limited. We do appointment of poet-laureat was conferred on not even know at what school, or in what him, and at the same time he was elected college, he was educated; though it was pro- Camden professor of ancient history. His last bably at Winchester school, and certainly in publication consisted of notes on Milton's some of the colleges in the university of Ox- smaller poems. He died rather suddenly in ford. For many years, he was successively his college in May, 1790. under and upper master of Winchester college; but resigned the last of these officers when he found the infirmities of age coming upon him; and was succeeded by Dr. Goddard, the present excellent master. He was likewise prebendary of the cathedral church of Winchester, and rector of Wickham in Hampshire, where he died, aged 78. His publications are few, but valuable. A small collection of poems, without a name, was the first of them, and contained the Ode to Fancy, which has been so much and so deservedly admired. They were all of them afterwards printed in Dodsley's collection. He was also a considerable contributor to the Adventurer, published by Dr. Hawkesworth; and all the papers which contain criticisms on Shakspeare were written by him and his brother. Thomas Warton, the subject of the next article. The first volume of his Essay on the Life and Writings of Pope was published, and passed through several editions, and an interval of between twenty and thirty years had elapsed before he gave a second volume of that elegant and instructive work to the world. He had not only meditated, but had collected materials for a literary history of the age of Leo X; and proposals were actually in circulation for a work of that kind; but it is probable that the duties of his station did not leave him the necessary leisure for an undertaking which required years of seclusion and independence. His last and late work, which he undertook for the booksellers at a very advanced age, was an edition of Pope's Works, that has not altogether satis fied the public expectation. He retained, with great propriety indeed, many of the notes of Warburton; but is severely reprehended by the author of the Pursuits of Literature for suppressing the name of that prelate on his title page, or including it only, as subordinate to his own, in the general expression others. WARTON (Thomas), poet-laureat, brother of the preceding, was born in 1728. He re WARTWORT, in botany. See EUPHOR BIA. WARTY. a. (from wart.) Grown over with warts. WARWICK, a borough and the capital of Warwickshire, governed by a mayor, with a market on Saturday. It was fortified with a wall, now in ruins; but has still a fine castle of the ancient earls of Warwick, inhabited by the present possessor of that title. The town was nearly destroyed by fire in 1694, and now principally consists of one regular built street, at each end of which is an ancient gate. It had formerly six monasteries and six churches; of the latter two only remain: it has likewise a handsome shirehouse, a good free-school, and a noted hospital for twelve decayed gentlemen. In 1801 the number of inhabitants was 5592. It is situate on a rocky eminence, on the river Avon, 10 miles S.S.W. of Coventry, and 90 N.W. of London. Lon. 1. 35 W. Lat. 52. 17 N. WARWICK, a town of Virginia, capital of a county; seated on the right bank of James river, 15 miles S.E. of Richmond. WARWICK, a town of Maryland, in Cecil county, on the east shore of Chesapeak bay, 15 miles S.W. of Philadelphia. WARWICK, a town of Rhode Island, chief of Kent county. It has a cotton manufacture, and is situate at the head of Narraganset bay, eight miles south of Providence. WARWICKSHIRE, a county of England, 47 miles long and 30 broad; bounded at its N. extremity by a point of Derbyshire, on the N.W. by Staffordshire, on the N.E. by Leicestershire, on the west by Worcestershire, on the east by Northamptonshire, on the S.W. by Gloucestershire, and on the S.E. by Oxfordshire. It lies partly in the diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, and partly in that of Wor cester; contains four hundreds, and one liberty, one city, twelve market towns, 158 parishes, and sends six members to parliament. In 1811 the number of inhabitants was 218,893. |