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pern
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Etymology 1 n. part of a spinning wheel, a conical spool onto which the thread is wound from the spindle Etymology 2 n. A honey buzzard; ''Pernis apivorus''. Etymology 3 vb. To take profit of; to make profitable.
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Pern \Pern\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The honey buzzard.
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Pern is a fictional planet created by Anne McCaffrey beginning in the 1960s, the setting for the Dragonriders of Pern series of science fiction books. In the story it is "Rukbat 3", the third planet in orbit around the star Rukbat , counting outward. No ...
Usage examples of pern.
Pellar produced a multicolored self-portrait in the way of all those who had only three Turns on Pern, exactly the same way that those who were only three years old back on long-forgotten Earth would have done--complete with arms sticking out of heads.
It would be another eighteen Turns before it grew to its ghastly largest size and brought the voracious Thread to threaten all life on Pern for a whole fifty Turns.
I have been requested by Murenny, Masterharper of Pern, to present you the formal garb of a harper apprentice.
How many children on Pern, he wondered, were like Cristov--trying to do their best without example?
Thread in midair, before it reached the soil of Pern and sucked it of all life, turning lush valleys into lifeless dust bowls.
And if they survived, Pern would benefit from the protection their labors helped provide.
Having grown up in Ireland with the Dragonriders of Pern, he is bursting with ideas for new stories of that world, its people, and its dragons.
Now, for the first time, Anne has invited another writer to join her in the skies of Pern, a writer with an intimate knowledge of Pern and its history: her son, Todd.
Turns the Red Star moved too far from Pern for Thread to fall, and the threat faded awayuntil two hundred Turns later when the Red Star repeated its orbit, beginning a second Pass.
Especially a girl who had inadvertently Impressed nine fire lizards when everyone else on Pern would give a left arm to own just one?
Running had done more than save her skin from Threadscoring: it had brought her to Benden Weyr, to the attention of the Masterharper of Pern and to the start of a completely new life.
Then she laughed at herself, for, to be sure she had: she was halfway round Pern from Benden Weyr and HalfCircle Hold, and she had had at least six hours more rest than usual.
On one wall was a finely drawn map of the Pern continent, with smaller detailed drawings of all the major Holds and Crafthalls pinned here and there on the borders.
She was giving him a list of the various types of fish that inhabited the oceans of Pern when the tocsin rang again and her explanation was drowned by shouts as apprentices erupted into the courtyard on their way to the dining hall.
The Masterharper of Pern had apologized to her, Menolly of HalfCircle Sea Hold, for improving on her song.