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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Warning \Warn"ing\, adjective Giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing; as, a warning voice.
That warning timepiece never ceased. --Longfellow.
{Warning piece}, {Warning wheel} (Horol.), a piece or wheel which produces a sound shortly before the clock strikes.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Warning \Warn"ing\, noun
1. Previous notice. ''At a month's warning.'' --Dryden.
A great journey to take upon so short a warning. --L'Estrange.
2. Caution against danger, or against faults or evil practices which incur danger; admonition; monition.
Could warning make the world more just or wise. --Dryden.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Warn \Warn\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Warned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Warning}.] [OE. warnen, warnien, AS. warnian, wearnian, to take heed, to warn; akin to AS. wearn denial, refusal, OS. warning, wernian, to refuse, OHG. warnen, G. warnen to warn, OFries. warna, werna, Icel. varna to refuse; and probably to E. wary. ????.]
1. To make ware or aware; to give previous information to; to give notice to; to notify; to admonish; hence, to notify or summon by authority; as, to warn a town meeting; to warn a tenant to quit a house. ''Warned of the ensuing fight.'' --Dryden.
Cornelius the centurion . . . was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee. --Acts x. 22.
Who is it that hath warned us to the walls? --Shak.
2. To give notice to, of approaching or probable danger or evil; to caution against anything that may prove injurious. ''Juturna warns the Daunian chief of Lausus' danger, urging swift relief.'' --Dryden.
3. To ward off. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
warning
adjective: serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an exemplary jail sentence" [syn: {admonitory}, {cautionary}, {exemplary}, {monitory}, {warning(a)}]
noun
1: a message informing of danger
2: cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger) [syn: {admonition}, {monition}, {word of advice}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
135 Moby Thesaurus words for "warning": admonishing, admonition, admonitory, advice, advising, advisory, advocacy, alerting, augural, blackmail, briefing, bulldozing, call, call for, caution, cautionary, cautioning, caveat, claim, clue, commination, consultation, consultative, consultatory, contribution, council, counsel, cue, demand, demand for, denunciation, determent, deterrence, deterrent, didactic, direction, directive, draft, drain, duty, empty threat, exaction, exemplary, exhortation, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulation, expostulative, expostulatory, extortion, extortionate demand, foreboding, forerunning, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foretokening, forewarning, frightening off, guidance, heavy demand, heavy with meaning, hint, hortation, hortative, hortatory, idea, idle threat, imminence, implied threat, imposition, impost, indent, indicative, insistent demand, instruction, instructive, intimidation, intuitive, levy, meaningful, menace, monition, monitorial, monitory, moralistic, nonnegotiable demand, notice, notificational, notifying, office, opinion, order, parley, passing word, pointer, preachy, precursive, precursory, predictive, prefigurative, preindicative, premonitory, presageful, presaging, prognostic, prognosticative, promise of harm, proposal, recommendation, recommendatory, remonstrance, remonstrant, remonstrative, remonstratory, requirement, requisition, rush, rush order, sententious, significant, steer, suggestion, sword of Damocles, talking out of, tax, taxing, thought, threat, threateningness, threatfulness, tip, tip-off, tribute, ultimatum, whisper
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