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Kern  n.  
1.
A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; distinguished from gallowglass, and often used as a term of contempt. "Now for our Irish wars; We must supplant those rough, rug-headed kerns."
2.
Any kind of boor or low-lived person. (Obs.)
3.
(O. Eng. Law) An idler; a vagabond.






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"Kern" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ak, the Master Woodsman of the World, who rules the forests and the orchards and the groves; and Kern, the Master Husbandman of the World, who rules the grain fields and the meadows and the gardens; and Bo, the Master Mariner of the World, who rules the seas and all the craft that float thereon. And all other immortals are more or less ...
— The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus • L. Frank Baum

... I knew Esther Kern, I've lost my liking for that name. I can't bear to think of one of those lovely twins growing up into such a ...
— Heart of Gold • Ruth Alberta Brown

... feast to-night Full many a kern and many a knight, And gentle dames, and clansmen strong, And wandering bards, with store of song: The board is piled with smoking kine, And smooth bright cups of Spanish wine, And fish and fowl from stream and shaw, And fragrant ...
— Poems • Denis Florence MacCarthy

... several weeks, and when we reached Washington, there was not a man in the party but was determined to fight, heart and soul, to save these rare fish from extinction. One or two summers during which 'fish-hogs' were permitted on the upper reaches of the Kern River, would have destroyed the trout forever, and, indeed, in one month a party of those reckless near-sportsmen destroyed almost one thousand of them. But the President's interest was enlisted, the Bureau of Fisheries made a firm stand, and to-day the region ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries • Francis Rolt-Wheeler



Words linked to "Kern" :   render, provide, Jerome David Kern, type, printing process, kern, remove, composer, Jerome Kern, get rid of, supply, furnish, printing



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