Also 7 warre, 9 warrie. [Of uncertain origin.
The word most probably belongs to one of the langs. of the Isthmus of Panama, but it may possibly be a corruption of the W. Indian synonym javaris (Rochefort, 1658), which seems to be a mispronunciation of Sp. jabalí wild boar.]
The white-lipped peccary, Dicotyles labiatus, native in Central and South America. Cf. TAGNICATI, TAYASSU.
1684. B. Sharp, Voy. (1729), 48. Our Supper-Entertainment was a very good sort of a Wild Beast, called a Warre, which is much like unto our English Hog.
1697. Dampier, Voy., I. i. 9. When hunger begins to bite, he [the Moskito Indian] … hunts about for Pecary, Warree, each a sort of Wild Hogs, or Deer.
1699. L. Wafer, Voy., 105. [Isthmus of Darien] The Warree is another kind of Wild-Hog they have.
1769. E. Bancroft, Guiana, 125. Besides the Hogs … there are two species which are peculiar to those parts of America … the Picary and Warree.
1842. T. Young, Resid. Mosquito Shore, 102. It was favourable weather for hunting, the woods near us being full of warrie.
1885. Encycl. Brit., XVIII. 449. The white-lipped peccary or warree … is … about 40 inches in length, of a blackish colour, with the lips and lower jaw white.
