awarn
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English awarnye; equivalent to a- + warn.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
awarn (third-person singular simple present awarns, present participle awarning, simple past and past participle awarned)
- (transitive, obsolete) To warn.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- That every bird and beast awarned made
To shrowd themselves