Verb
To curse; execrate; abuse; speak evil of.
Usage- Archaic
- dialectal
- Transitive
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Adjective
Warlike, warrish.
Usage- Uncommon
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[…] a Monarch's suretie no way stood In victories, in warrie broyles, and blood: […]
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The woman had a sword by her side […] She looked "very strong and warry and fierce, but not wicked;" that is, not cruel, at all. The old woman had seen the Irish giant, and "though he was a fine man, he was nothing to this woman, for he was round, and could not have stepped out so soldierly[…]"