▪ I. † ˈwarry, a.1 Obs. rare.
[f. warre + y. OE. had wearriᵹ callous.]
Of a tree: Full of knots. Cf. warried, warren adjs.
| 1567 Golding Ovid's Met. viii. 930 There stood in it a warrie Oke [annoso robore quercus]. |
▪ II. warry, a.2 poet. rare—1.
(ˈwɔːrɪ)
[f. war n.1 + -y1.]
Belligerent, warlike.
| 1901 W. B. Yeats in Lady Gregory Ideals in Ireland 96 She looked ‘very strong and warry and fierce, but not wicked’. |
▪ III. warry
obs. f. wary a.; variant of wary v. Obs.
▪ IV. warry, -able
var. ff. warray v., -able Obs.