derne

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English

Etymology

From Old English dyrnan (“to hide”). See dern, dearn (adjective).

Verb

derne (third-person singular simple present dernes, present participle derning, simple past and past participle derned)

  1. (Scotland) To hide; to skulk.
    • 1854, Hugh Miller, My schools and schoolmasters:
      He at length escaped them by derning himself in a fox-earth.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “derne”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English dyrne, dierne.

Adjective

derne

  1. Hidden; secret.

Descendants

  • English: dern, dearn, darn
  • Scots: dern, darn

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse þarna.

Adverb

derne

  1. there
    Synonym: der

Determiner

derne

  1. that
    Synonym: den

See also

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