Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as gan.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb obsolete To yawn; to gape.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To yawn; to gape.

Etymologies

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See yawn.

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  • A Chaucerian word! It means "to yawn, gape" (Webster's Rev. Unabr. Dict., from Dictionary.com)

    June 6, 2008