Wern

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Warn \Warn\ (w[add]rn), v. t. [OE. wernen, AS. weornan, wyrnan.
     Cf. {Warn} to admonish.]
     To refuse. [Written also {wern}, {worn}.] [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Wern \Wern\, v. t. [See 1st {Warn}.]
     To refuse. [Obs.]
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           He is too great a niggard that will wern
           A man to light a candle at his lantern.  --Chaucer.
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