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Yern
Yern \Yern\, v. i. See 3d Yearn. [Obs.]
Yern
Yern \Yern\, a. [OE. [yogh]ern, [yogh]eorne, AS. georn desirous,
eager. See Yearn to long.]
Eager; brisk; quick; active. [Obs.] ``Her song . . . loud and
yern.''
--Chaucer.
Wiktionary
yern
vb. (obsolete form of yearn English)
Usage examples of "yern".
Dyfid darted out of the pack and ran a hundred yards, to jerk a yern root from the ground.
John Carp did begyn to make furnaces over the gate, and he used of my rownd bricks, and for the yern pot was contented now to use the lesser bricks, 60 to make a furnace.