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Kern v. i.

To harden, as corn in ripening. (Obs.)

To take the form of kernels; to granulate. (Obs.) "It is observed that rain makes the salt kern."

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Etymology of 'Kern'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... old customs, and has an annual feast, when the toast of the immortal memory of John of Gaunt is drunk with due solemnity. Harvest customs were formerly very numerous, but are fast dying out before the reaping-machines and agricultural depression. The "kern-baby" has been dead ...

— Vanishing England • P. H. Ditchfield

... 'greatest among founders of new religions and lawgivers. His name signified "golden star" according to Anquetil du Perron. But this interpretation is as doubtful, as the many others which have been attempted. An appropriate one is given in the essay by Kern quoted below, from zara golden, and thwistra glittering; thus "the gold glittering one." It is uncertain whether he was born in Bactria, Media or Persia, Anquetil thinks in Urmi, a town in Aderbaijan. His father's name was Porosehasp, his mother's Dogdo, and his family ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

Words linked to "Kern" : printing process, render, Jerome Kern, kern, Jerome David Kern, provide, printing, supply, remove