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  1. A retired place or habitation: chiefly in composition. See etymology.

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  • As the elder Romans distinguished their north- ern provinces into Cis-Alpine and Trans-Alpine, so may we divide all the objects of human knowledge into those on this side, and those on the other side of the spontaneous conscious- ness; citra et trans conscientiam communem. —  Biographia Literaria
  • Und: 'Wehe euch Schriftgelehrten und Pharisäern, ihr Heuchler, die ihr gleich seid übertünchten Gräbern, die auswendig hübsch scheinen, aber inwendig voller Todtenbeine und Unflaths sind. —  August Bebel: Charles Fourier
  • Gernant, 26, made his announcement Sunday morning in front of the original family home in Whitetail, the northeast-ern Montana town where his great-grandfather homesteaded. —  billingsgazette.com
  • Chief deputy district attorney Kent Lovern (LUHV-ern) says it's too early to say if there will be charges.
  • Slide 12: 1006 sites in database d "nt n" se me "Ope" Clo ern s -- ov ite sites SG 3s 96 - U 14 6 sites 167 —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
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  1. Anglo-Saxon œrn, a retired place or habitation, scarcely used except in comp. (-œern, -ern), as in berern, contr. bern (later English barn), eorth-ern, a grave, etc.
 

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