Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
bairn .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
bairn .
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Seperately you can purchase bearn archery and small game licenses
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Oh, yes, and congratulations to Elisabeth Carnell on the coming bearn. posted by Dr. Richard Scott Nokes at 9: 03 AM
I forbid my wife to be a medievalist! Richard Nokes 2006
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Múȝe we ahct clepeien hine mod {er} wene we. ȝíe muȝe we. hwat deð si moder hire bearn. formes [t] hi hit che {r} eð ⁊ blissið be þe lichte.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Softliche he heo isom [nede] · ac þær biþ sor idol · 5 þ̵ bodeþ þ̵ bearn: þonne hit iboren biþ · hit [woan] eþ ⁊ mænet þeo weowe ·
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Each one may harness his goat to the bearn, drive his cattle to pasture, sow a corner of a field, and bake his bread by his own fireside.
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. 1890
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Wælsinges gewin, wīde sīðas, þāra þe gumena bearn gearwe ne wiston,
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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Swā bealdode bearn Ecgþēowes, guma gūðum cūð, gōdum dǣdum,
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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Nealles him on hēape hand-gesteallan, æðelinga bearn ymbe gestōdon hilde-cystum, ac hȳ on holt bugon,
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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Forgeaf þā Bēowulfe bearn Healfdenes segen gyldenne sigores tō lēane, hroden hilte-cumbor, helm and byrnan; mǣre māððum-sweord manige gesāwon
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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