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fóre-weard, -ward, fór-word, -werd, e; f; fóre-warde, an; f. A FOREWARD, precaution, contract, agreement, compact, treaty, provision; præcautio, pactum, fœdus :-- Wurdon ða fórewearda full worhte the contracts were completed. Chr. 1109; Erl. 242, 22. To ðán ylcan fóreweardum [MS. foreweardan] with the same provisions, Cod. Dipl. 731; A.D. 1013-1020; Kmbl. iv. 10, 6. Fóreweard exordium, Rtl. 69, 17. DER. weard, e; f. [Dut. voor-waarde, f. condition, terms, pre-contract.]
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fór-ward a fore-ward, precaution, Chart. ad calc. C. R. Ben. Lye. v. fóre-weard, e; f.
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fór-werd, e; f. A fore-ward, precaution, contract, agreement; præcautio, pactum :-- Hér swutelaþ ymb ða fórwerda ðe Wulfric and se arcebisceop geworhton here is made known concerning the agreements which Wulfric and the archbishop made, Cod. Dipl. 738; A.D. 1023; Kmbl. iv. 25, 29. v. fóre-weard, e; f.
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warian;
p.
ode
I.
intrans.
(or
uncertain)
To
beware
:--
Warat
cavet,
Kent.
Gl.
364.
Wara
cave,
Germ.
393,
136.
Warige
(warnige,
v.
l.)
hé
ðæt
hit
ná
forealdige,
L.
Edg.
C.
38;
Th.
ii.
252,
6.
II.
trans.
To
make
ware,
(1)
to
warn
:--
Mid
ð
m
wordum
hé
ús
warode
and
lrde
quibus
verbis
pastoribus
praecavetur,
Past.
18;
Swt.
137,
21.
Mótan
ða
hyrdas
beón
swíðe
wacole,
ðe
wið
ðone
þeódscaðan
folc
sculon
warian,
Wulfst.
191,
13.
(2)
used
reflexively,
(a)
to
be
on
one's
guard,
guard
against
evil
:--
Forlaþ
ðone
nne
beám,
wariaþ
inc
wið
ðone
wæstm,
Cd.
Th.
15,
20;
Gen.
236.
Hé
gelre
ðæt
hý
hí
wið
ðæt
warien,
ðæt
hý
hr
ne
cumen,
Sbrn.
203,
3.
(b)
to
be
careful
to
do
what
is
necessary,
take
a
precaution
:--
Warige
hine
se
ðe
his
ágen
befóð,
ðæt
hé
tó
lcan
teáme
hæbbe
getrýwne
borh,
L.
Eth.
ii.
9
;
Th.
i.
290,
6.
III.
to
guard,
hold
:--
Mín
hord
waraþ
feónd,
Exon.
Th.
499,
27
;
Rä.
88,
22:
414,
17;
Rä.
32,
21.
Hé
hðen
gold
waraþ,
Beo.
Th.
4543;
B.
2277.
IIIa.
to
hold
a
place,
occupy,
inhabit
:--
Hié
dýgel
lond
warigeaþ,
Beo.
Th.
2720;
B.
1358.
Hé
wésten
warode,
2534;
B.
1265.
Goldsele
Grendel
warode,
2511;
B.
1253.
IIIb.
to
take
possession
of
(cf.
giseban
thana
hélagon
gést
énigan
man
warón,
Hél.
1003
:--
Waraþ
hine
wræclást,
nales
wunden
gold,
Exon.
Th.
288,
17
;
Wand.
32.
IV.
to
ward
off.
v.
warenian,
II.
3
:--
Ðæt
wit
unc
wíte
warian
sceolden,
Cd.
Th.
49,
33;
Gen.
801.
[They
bad
him
he
scholde
warye
(be
on
his
guard),
Alis.
4083.
Heo
mot
warien
hwon
me
punt
hire,
A.
R.
418,I.
Iosep
cuðe
him
biforen
waren,
Gen.
and
Ex.
2154.
Ware
the
what
thou
do,
Gow.
ii.
388,
27.
Ware
þe
fram
wanhope,
Piers
P.
5,
452.
O.
Sax.
warón:
O.
Frs.
waria
:
O.
H.
Ger.
bi-warón
:
Icel.
vara
to
warn;
varask
to
beware
of,
be
on
one's
guard
against,
shun.]
v.
be-,
ge-warian
;
werian,
warenian.
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fyrir-vari, a, m. precaution, Fs. 65.
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NAGLI, a, m. [A.S. nægel; Engl. nail; Dan. nagle] :-- a nail, spike; naglar í skipi, Skálda 192; eyri fyrir nagla hvern ok ró á, N.G.L. i. 100; hurðin brotnaði at nöglum, Ó.H. 117, passim; tré-n., járn-n., hestskó-n. (a horseshoe-nail), Bs. i. 382: metaph., var-n., slá varnagla fyrir e-u, to take precaution :-- a peg, þar vóru í naglar, þeir hétu regin-naglar, Eb. 10 :-- medic. the core of a boil, kveisu-n. COMPDS: nagla-far, n. a nail-print, John xx. 25. nagla-fastr, adj. fastened with nails, Gþl. 346.
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var-hugi, a, m. a precaution; in the phrase, gjalda varhuga við e-u, to beware of, Sighvat, Fms. ii. 166, iv. 172, viii. 341, Al. 154.
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vari, a, m. wariness, caution, Fas. iii. 268; bjóða e-m vara á e-u, to bid one beware of, Grett. 148 A; betri er fyrri varinn, fore-thought is better than after-thought, Fs. 65 (see the foot-note). II. til vara ..., Bs. i. 735; til vonar og vara, and til vara (as adv.), for sake of precaution, in case that ...; and-vari, q.v. 2. as prefixed to compds, vara- is = Engl. vice-; vara-skeifa, vara-forseti, vara-frumvarp, etc. (mod.)
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var-nagli, a, m., better varr-nagli, with a double r, [for it does not come from vara, to beware, the pun in Fas. i. 15 being a poetical conceit; the word is rather derived from varra or vörr, q.v.] :-- the bung for the hole in a boat's bottom; chiefly in the metaph. phrase, slá varnagla við e-u, to take precaution against a future leakage, a future emergency.
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