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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Warish

War′ish (wâr′ĭsh), v. t. [OF. warir to protect, heal, cure, F. guérir to cure; of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. werian, weren, to protect, to hinder. See Garret.] To protect from the effects of; hence, to cure; to heal. [Obs.]

My brother shall be warished hastily. Chaucer.

Varro testifies that even at this day there be some who warish and cure the stinging of serpents with their spittle. Holland.

War′ish, v. i. To be cured; to recover. [Obs.]

Your daughter . . . shall warish and escape. Chaucer.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.