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▪ I. erne, n.|ɜːn|
Forms: 1 earn, 3 ærn, 3–4 arn(e, 3–6 ern, (4 eerne, 4–6 eren), 8–9 earn, 4– erne.
[OE. earn, corresp. to MLG. arn (Du. arend), ON. ǫrn str. masc.:—OTeut. *arnu-z. OTeut. had also a synonymous *aron- wk. masc., whence OHG. aro (MHG. are, mod.G. aar), ON. ari, Goth. ara. Cf. OSlav. orilŭ, Lith. erelis eagle, Gr. ὄρνις bird.]
1. An eagle; in mod. use chiefly the golden eagle or the sea-eagle (see eagle).
a1000Elene 29 (Gr.) Urigfeðera earn sang ahof. c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xxiv. 28 Swa hwær swa hold byð, þæder beoð earnas ᵹegaderude. c1200Ormin 6056 Forr ærn maȝȝ fleȝhenn i þe lifft Full heȝhe towarrd heoffne. a1225Ancr. R. 196 Vre widerwines beoð swifture þen þe earnes. a1300Cursor M. 13444 (Cott.) For-þi to þe arn lickest es he. c1325Chron. Eng. 156 in Ritson Meir. Rom. II. 276 Ther spac an ern [a] prophecie. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 35 As þe eerne clepynge hise briddis. a1455Houlate xxv, Ernes ancient of air kingis that croond is. 1513Douglas æneis xii. v. 64 For Jovis foule, the ern, com sorand by. 1555Eden Decades W. Ind. (Arb.) 315 Erens or eagles. 1565Golding Ovid's Met. vi. (1593) 144 The scarefull erne With hooked talents trussing up a hare among the ferne. 1744Preston Zetland in Phil. Trans. XLIII. 62 There are very large Eagles, which they call Earns. 1813Hogg Queen's Wake 97 He saw..A sight that scared the erne away. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) III. xiv. 344 Men told..how..ravens and ernes sat on the stern of every ship.
2. Comb. erne-fern, the Brake (Pteris aquilina); erne-hued a., having the colour of an eagle; erne-stone = aetites.
c1325E.E. Allit. P. B. 1698 Erne hwed he watz & al ouer-brawden. 1587Harrison England iii. xii. (1878) ii. 79 At this season there are found in England the Aetites (in English called the ernestone).
▪ II. erne
obs. form of earn v.2
c1175Lamb. Hom. 157 Ure erde is in houene, if we þer efter erneð. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 205 Harde herted art thou yf thyne herte erne not ne melte in suche remembraunce. |