Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as sharn.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. Dung.
  • noun (Zoöl.) a dung beetle.

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  • noun obsolete, UK, dialect dung

Etymologies

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Compare sharn.

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Examples

  • You all know, neighbours, what a man I be, and how I come down with my powerful words when my pride is boiling wi 'scarn? "

    Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

  • You all know, neighbours, what a man I be, and how I come down with my powerful words when my pride is boiling wi’ scarn?”

    Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

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