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kern
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Word definitions for kern in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kern \Kern\, n. [Written also kirn .] [Cf. D. & G. kern kernal, E. kern to harden, kernel.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Kernel; corn; grain. The last handful or sheaf reaped at the harvest. The harvest-home.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, "part of a metal type projecting beyond the body," as the head of an -f- or the tail of a -j- , from French carne "projecting angle, quill of a pen," from Latin cardinem "hinge."
Usage examples of kern.
Enter Magee Mor Matthew, a rugged rough rugheaded kern, in strossers with a buttoned codpiece, his nether stocks bemired with clauber of ten forests, a wand of wilding in his hand.
Edward and Kailea Hunt, Daryl Gross, Amy Knapp, Lori Medanich, Julie Christou, Wendy Howard, John and Kelly Park, Jim and Sharon Supp, Kern Boyer, Alan and Bethany Blomdahl, Tim and Carolyn Lugbill, Dave and Twee Ramos, Bob and Janice Lee, Brian and Christa Geno, Frank and Cindi Cofer, Ron and Gennene Johnson, and Lon Solomon and his team-what a thrill to be in the race with you guys.
Kern craned his head to see Daile and Miltiades to his left, struggling in vain against the skeletal bonds.
Shields before them, Kern and Miltiades cut a wide swath through the cavern, Listle, Daile, and Sirana following close behind.
Once, however, he wrote:--Darin konnte man den idealen Kern der Geschichte des menschlichen Geschlechtes uberhaupt sehen, dass in den Kampfen, die sich in den gegenseitigen Interessen der Staaten und Volker vollziehen, doch immer hohere Potenzen emporkommen, die das Allgemeine demgemass umgestalten and ihm wieder einen anderen Charakter verleihen.
She had one copper kern left and felt sure Gip would want her to spend it on something nice and tasty to eat.
Kern tried to move his arms, but the scabrous bones only tightened cruelly.
Then a patrol car pulled up behind Kern, its headlights flooding him, and Teasle knew he would not have to answer at all.
Kern shouted, and Teasle realized that what he had been thinking he had said out loud.
When he pulled out a chair for Leonora he noticed Osmond Kern, silver-haired and vaguely regal-looking in the manner of the tenured aristocrats of the academic world, sitting at a nearby table.
They went slowly, for they rode with an army at their backs, and matched their pace to the footpace of the kerns.
This fault system caused the 1971 San Fernando earthquake and is geologically similar to the system that generated the large 1952 Kern County earthquake.
Kern spun around to see what had to be the hugest elf in all the northlands stride into the room.
Suddenly there were a half-dozen Kerns standing in the courtyard, each identical to the other, all looking equally dumbfounded.
Pryce Dacaerin set to hurling his kerns against the hard walls of Myrdon.