warren
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Noun (5)
- United States writer and poet (1905-1989)Synonyms: Robert Penn WarrenInstance of poet, writer
- United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1891-1974)Synonyms: Earl WarrenInstance of chief justice
- a series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbitsSynonyms: rabbit warrenType of burrow, tunnel
- an overcrowded residential areaSynonyms: rabbit warrenType of residential district, residential area
- a colony of rabbitsType of animal groupMembers rabbit, coney
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OF. waresne, warenne, garene, F. garenne, from OF. warer, garer, to beware, to take care; of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. warōn (in comp.), OS. warōn to take care, to observe, akin to E. wary. √142. See Wary.
1. Eng Law (a) A place privileged, by prescription or grant the king, for keeping certain animals (as hares, conies, partridges, pheasants, etc.) called beasts and fowls of warren. Alexander Mansfield. Burrill (b) A privilege which one has in his lands, by royal grant or prescription, of hunting and taking wild beasts and birds of warren, to the exclusion of any other person not entering by his permission. Sir Henry Spelman
They wend both warren and in waste.— Vision of Piers Plowman
☞ The warren is the next franchise in degree to the park; and a forest, which is the highest in dignity, comprehends a chase, a park, and a free warren.
2. A piece of ground for the breeding of rabbits.
3. A place for keeping flash, in a river.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54