ppl. a. [f. WART sb. + -ED2.]

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  1.  Covered with warts. rare.

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1615.  Niccholes, Marr. & Wiving, vi. 17. Lip-bearded, as wiches, with their warted antiquity and age.

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1689.  N. Lee, Princess Cleve, III. i. She’s warted all over like a pumpl’d Orange.

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1876.  Blackmore, Cripps, xlix. That heavy gate … banged her chubby knees, and it bruised her warted hand.

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  2.  Bot., Zool., etc. Studded with wart-like knobs or excrescences; verrucose.

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1681.  Grew, Musæum, II. § iii. ii. 230. The Warted Gourd.

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1763.  Mills, Syst. Pract. Husb., IV. 170. The Zatte melon … its coat is warted like that of the Cantaleupe.

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1793.  Martyn, Lang. Bot., Verrucosa capsula, a warted capsule. Ibid., Verrucosum folium, a Warted leaf.

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1802.  Shaw, Gen. Zool., III. 296. Warted Newt.

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1822.  Hortus Anglicus, II. 339. Lapsana Zacintha. Warted Nipple Wort.

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1830.  Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 153. Seeds very numerous, minute, slightly warted.

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1852.  Dickens, Bleak Ho., xxviii. The gnarled and warted elms.

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1885.  H. O. Forbes, Nat. Wand. E. Archip., 469. Blocks of rugged and warted coral-like limestone.

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