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waryson

waryson is the obsolete spelling of warison.

Meaning of warison

Noun

warison (plural warisons)

  1. (obsolete) A war cry played to order the soldiers to attack (normally played on a bugle).
    • Then since a lone and widowed Dame / These restless riders may not tame, / Either receive within thy towers / Two hundred of my master’s powers, / Or straight they sound their warison§, / And storm and spoil thy garrison; […]1805, Walter Scott, “Canto Fourth”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC...

Forms of waryson

pluralwarysons

Questions about waryson

What is waryson the obsolete spelling of?
Waryson is the obsolete spelling of warison.

Words near waryson in the dictionary

  1. warworkers
  2. warworn
  3. wary
  4. waryfish
  5. waryfishes
  6. waryson
  7. warysons
  8. Warzecha
  9. Warzechas
  10. Warzel
  11. warzone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: waryson (page history and authors); warison (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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