WOTD – 5 March 2018 From Middle English <span class="searchmatch">lorn</span>, loren, ilorn, iloren (past participle of lese, lesen (“to lose, be deprived of; to damn, doom to perdition”))...
<span class="searchmatch">lorner</span> comparative form of <span class="searchmatch">lorn</span>: more <span class="searchmatch">lorn</span> 1917, Helen Beecher Long, How Janice Day Won, page 265: I'm a poor lone woman — loner and <span class="searchmatch">lorner</span> than I've...
English Wikipedia has an article on: Firth of <span class="searchmatch">Lorn</span> Wikipedia Firth of <span class="searchmatch">Lorn</span> A strait or firth between the Isle of Mull and the Slate Islands....
From <span class="searchmatch">lorn</span> + -ness. <span class="searchmatch">lornness</span> (countable and uncountable, plural lornnesses) The quality of being <span class="searchmatch">lorn</span>. 1872, The Spectator, volume 45, page 563: The joys...
pesbian <span class="searchmatch">lorn</span> (uncountable) (Internet slang) Spoonerism of lesbian porn...
lornest superlative form of <span class="searchmatch">lorn</span>: most <span class="searchmatch">lorn</span>...
Borrowed from French lorgnon. <span class="searchmatch">lornion</span> n (plural lornioane) lorgnette...
From <span class="searchmatch">lorn</span> + -ly. <span class="searchmatch">lornly</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">lornly</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">lornly</span>) In a forlorn manner. 1984, Norman Spinrad, The Void Captain's tale, page 86:...
ORNL Initialism of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. NROL, <span class="searchmatch">lorn</span>...