Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To refuse.
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- verb obsolete, transitive To
refuse .
Etymologies
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Examples
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February 12, 2008 at 12:37 pm i iz new hewe, sumwon hewp me wern to speke in youw wanguage?
mapquest - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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'It' now comes out more like 'urt', and 'shown' now has an extra syllable - 'sho-wern'.
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And forsothe there is a great marveyle: for men may see there the erthe of the tombe apertly many tymes steren and meven,38 as there wern quykke thinges undre.
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And forsothe there is a great marveyle: for men may see there the erthe of the tombe apertly many tymes steren and meven,484 as there wern quykke thinges undre.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Apparently Palsgrave had entered into some kind of arrangement with the printer, for Vaughan writes that he 'hathe willed Pynson to sell none of them to any other person than to suche as he shall comaunde to have them, lest his proffit by teching the Frenche tonge myght be mynished by the sale of the same to suche persons as, besids hym, wern disposed to studye the sayd tongue.'
The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan
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[865] Or in the worthy Margaret's spelling: "Yf I mythe have had my wylle, I xulde a seyne yow er dystyme; I wolde ye wern at hom, yf it wer your ese, and your sor myth ben as wyl lokyth to her as it tys there ye ben, now lever dan a goune thow it wer of scarlette."
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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"Dare's ernly wern bearsterl een de werld oo eez aving whel ferskeen," says David.
The Guardian World News Sam Wollaston 2011
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"Dare's ernly wern bearsterl een de werld oo eez aving whel ferskeen," says David.
The Guardian World News Sam Wollaston 2011
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And forsothe there is a great marveyle: for men may see there the erthe of the tombe apertly many tymes steren and meven, [Footnote: Stir and move.] as there wern quykke thinges undre.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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If it wern ` t for the fact Kimi looks like He ` s sucking a Lemon when talk of being Massa ` s tail gunner is ...
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