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<A NAME="war">
<B>war</B> (1), noun, verb, <B>warred,</B> <B>warring,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1a. </B>fighting carried on by armed force between nations or parts of a nation. <BR> <I>Ex. to repudiate war as a means of settling international disputes, to prepare for war.</I> (SYN) warfare, hostilities. <DD><B> b. </B>an instance or particular period of this. <BR> <I>Ex. a veteran of two wars, to remember the dead on both sides in the last war.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) any fighting or struggle; strife; conflict. <BR> <I>Ex. a trade war. Doctors carry on war against disease.</I> <DD><B> 3a. </B>the occupation or art of fighting with weapons; military science. <BR> <I>Ex. Soldiers are trained for war.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the division of a government responsible for the armed forces, military planning, budgets, and the like. <BR> <I>Ex. to appoint a new secretary of war.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Archaic.) a battle. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to make war; fight. <BR> <I>Ex. brother warring against brother, to war with an aggressor. Germany warred against France.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to carry on any struggle actively; contend; battle. <BR> <I>Ex. to war against all things mean or petty.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or having to do with war. <BR> <I>Ex. war crimes.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>used in war. <BR> <I>Ex. war weapons.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>caused by war. <BR> <I>Ex. war casualties.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>at war,</B> </I>taking part in a war. <BR> <I>Ex. The United States was at war with Great Britain in 1812. (Figurative.) Teetotalers and moderate drinkers will probably be at war on this point ... as long as the world lasts (Graphic).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>go to war,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>to enter into a state of war; start a war. </I> <I>Ex. The aim of the nation in going to war is exactly the same as that of an individual in entering a court; it wants its rights, or what it alleges to be its rights (James Mozley).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to go as a soldier or sailor in a war. <BR> <I>Ex. The minstrel boy to the war is gone (Thomas Moore).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>make war,</B> </I>to engage in war; fight a war. <BR> <I>Ex. Aristotle maintained the general right of making war upon barbarians (William Paley).</I> </DL>
<B>war</B> (4), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Obsolete.) ware (1). </DL>
<A NAME="waratah">
<B>waratah, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an Australian plant with leathery leaves and large scarlet flowers. It is the floral emblem of New South Wales. </DL>
<A NAME="warbaby">
<B>war baby,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a child born in wartime; child of a soldier. <BR> <I>Ex. about 1965, when the greatest number of so-called war babies, born in the nineteen-forties, [were] of college age (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal.) <DD><B> a. </B>an industry that is stimulated by war or threat of war. <DD><B> b. </B>a stock or security of such an industry. <BR> <I>Ex. The war babies--copper, chemical, oil, rubber and steel issues--attracted most investor interest (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="warbetweenthestates">
<B>War Between the States,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the American Civil War. </DL>
<A NAME="warble">
<B>warble</B> (1), verb, <B>-bled,</B> <B>-bling,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to sing with trills, quavers, or melodious turns. <BR> <I>Ex. Birds warbled in the trees.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to make a sound like that of a bird warbling. <BR> <I>Ex. The brook warbled over its rocky bed.</I> (SYN) purl, ripple. <DD><B> 3. </B>(U.S.) yodel. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to sing with melodious runs, trills, quavers, or turns. <DD><B> 2. </B>to express in or as if in song; sing. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a melodious song with trills and quavers. <DD><B> 2. </B>any sound like warbling. <DD><B> 3. </B>the act of warbling. </DL>
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<B>warble</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small, hard tumor, caused by the pressure of the saddle on a horse's back. <DD><B> 2. </B>a small tumor or swelling on the back of cattle, deer, and some other animals, produced by the larva of the warble fly. <DD><B> 3. </B>a warble fly, especially in its larval form. Also, <B>wabble.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="warbled">
<B>warbled, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> affected with or injured by warbles. </DL>
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<B>warble fly,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of certain flies whose larvae burrow under the skin of cattle, deer, and other animals, forming warbles. </DL>
<A NAME="warbler">
<B>warbler, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person or bird that warbles; singer; songster. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of several kinds of small songbirds, often brightly colored. The wood warblers include the redstart, water thrush, chat, yellow warbler, myrtle warbler, and ovenbird, among others. <DD><B> 3. </B>any one of various small, plain-colored songbirds of the Old World, such as the blackcap and whitethroat. </DL>
<A NAME="warblingvireo">
<B>warbling vireo,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small, plain-colored vireo that lives in high woodlands of North America and has a melodious warble. </DL>
<A NAME="warbond">
<B>war bond,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a government bond issued in World War II. </DL>
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<B>war bonnet,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a ceremonial headdress of skin set with feathers and often a long trailing piece with feathers, worn by certain North American Indians. <BR> <I>Ex. Indians ... with the long red streamers of their war bonnets reaching nearly to the ground (John C. Fremont).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="warborn">
<B>war-born, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> produced or developed during war; resulting from a war. <BR> <I>Ex. The war-born alliance grew to greatness out of sheer necessity and through the personal relationships of Roosevelt and Churchill (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="warbride">
<B>war bride,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the bride of a soldier or sailor in wartime. </DL>
<A NAME="warchest">
<B>war chest,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a fund of money put aside to pay for the costs of some undertaking, especially a political campaign. <BR> <I>Ex. In the current campaign businessmen are actively at work in a traditional role for them in politics--raising money for party war chests (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="warcloud">
<B>war cloud,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a cloud of dust and smoke rising from a battlefield. <DD><B> 2. </B>something that threatens war. <BR> <I>Ex. Markets fall into a well-known pattern when war clouds gather (Economist).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="warclub">
<B>war club,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a heavy club used as a weapon. </DL>
<A NAME="warcollege">
<B>war college,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a school for teaching advanced military techniques to officers. </DL>
<A NAME="warcorrespondent">
<B>war correspondent,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person employed by a newspaper, magazine, or radio station to send news from overseas about a war, especially first-hand accounts of the fighting. <BR> <I>Ex. Stephen Crane was another great writer to gain fame as a war correspondent (Gordon Sabine).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="warcraft">
<B>warcraft, </B>noun, pl. <B>-craft.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any ship or aircraft used in war. <BR> <I>Ex. Still other jet and propellered warcraft provided close air support (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the science or art of war; cunning and skill in warfare. </DL>
<A NAME="warcrime">
<B>war crime,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a violation of the rules of warfare, especially any inhuman act against civilians or prisoners in time of war. </DL>
<A NAME="warcriminal">
<B>war criminal,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person convicted of committing a war crime. <BR> <I>Ex. Berlin's ancient Spandau Fortress [served] as a prison for Germany's most notorious war criminals (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="warcry">
<B>war cry,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a word or phrase shouted in fighting; battle cry. <DD><B> 2. </B>any cry or slogan used in rallying people to a cause. </DL>
