Word Meanings - DERNE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To hide; to skulk. He at length escaped them by derning himself in a foxearth. H. Miller.

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• ESCAPE
  1. To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of. Haste, for thy life escape, nor look behindKeble. 2. To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm. Such heretics . . . would have
• LENGTHFUL
  Long. Pope.
• DERNFUL
  Secret; hence, lonely; sad; mournful. "Dernful noise." Spenser.
• DERNE
  To hide; to skulk. He at length escaped them by derning himself in a foxearth. H. Miller.
• DERNIER
  Last; final. Dernier ressort ( Etym: , last resort or expedient.
• LENGTHINESS
  The state or quality of being lengthy; prolixity.
• LENGTHWAYS; LENGTHWISE
  In the direction of the length; in a longitudinal direction.
• ESCAPEMENT
  1. The act of escaping; escape. 2. Way of escape; vent. An escapement for youthful high spirits. G. Eliot. 3. The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by
• HIMSELF
  1. An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun; -- used as a subject usually with he; as, he himself will bear the blame; used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is himself who saved himself.
• MILLER
  1. One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill. 2. A milling machine. A moth or lepidopterous insect; -- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also moth miller. The eagle
• DERNLY
  Secretly; grievously; mournfully. Spenser.
• LENGTHILY
  In a lengthy manner; at great length or extent.
• LENGTHEN
  To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out. What if I please to lengthen out his date. Dryden.
• LENGTHY
  Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; -- said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like. "Lengthy periods." Washington. "Some lengthy additions." Byron. "These would be details too lengthy." Jefferson. "To cut short lengthy
• SKULKINGLY
  In a skulking manner.
• ESCAPADE
  escape; or F., fr. It. scappata escape, escapade, fr. scappare to 1. The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol. 2. Act by which one breaks loose from the rules of propriety or good sense; a freak; a prank. Carlyle.
• HIMSELF; HIMSELVE; HIMSELVEN
  Themselves. See Hemself. Chaucer.
• LENGTH
  1. The longest, or longer, dimension of any object, in distinction from breadth or width; extent of anything from end to end; the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its sides; as, the length of a church, or of a ship; the
• SKULK; SKULKER
  One who, or that which, skulks.
• DERN
  1. Hidden; concealed; secret. "Ye must be full dern." Chaucer. 2. Solitary; sad. Dr. H. More.
• PRESCAPULA
  The part of the scapula in front of, or above, the spine, or mesoscapula.
• UNDERNICENESS
  A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
• MODERN
  1. Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. Bacon. 2. New and common;
• UNDERNIME
  1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• ALENGTH
  At full length; lenghtwise. Chaucer.
• MODERNIZATION
  The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.
• ELDERN
  Made of elder. He would discharge us as boys do eldern guns. Marston.
• JOE MILLER
  was attached, after his death, to a popular jest book published in
• ALDERN
  Made of alder.
• HALF-LENGTH
  Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture.
• BISHOP'S LENGTH
  A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 of 56.
• MODERNNESS
  The quality or state of being modern; recentness; novelty. M. Arnold.