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▪ I. kerned, ppl. a.1|kɜːnd|
[f. kern v.1]
a. Of cereal grains or fruit: (Ill or well) formed, set, or hardened. Said also of a crop.
†b. Of salt: (Small, large, hard, etc.) -grained. Obs.
c. dial. = corned a.1 2.
d. Of ore: see quot. 1850.
1602Carew Cornwall 20 b, An ill kerned, or saued Harvest, soone emptieth their old store. c1682J. Collins Salt & Fishery 53 It is a pure hard kerned Salt. 1847–78Halliwell, Kerned beef, salted beef. Hants. 1850Weale Dict. Terms, Kerned, a term applied to a heap of mundic or copper ore hardened by lying exposed to the sun. 1865Pall Mall G. 11 July 5/2 The straw was about six feet long, and the grain exceedingly well kerned.
▪ II. kerned, ppl. a.2 Printing.|kɜːnd|
[f. kern v.2]
Said of a type which has its top or bottom projecting beyond the square metal or shank.
1683[see kern v.2]. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 122/2 Kern, or Kerned Letter; such as have part of their face hanging over..their Shanks. 1824J. Johnson Typogr. II. 22 In Roman, f and j are the only kerned letters; but, in Italic, d,g,j,l,y are kerned on one side, and f on boths sides of its face. Ibid., Most Italic capitals are kerned on one side of their face.
▪ III. [kerned
error for kerued, carved, castrated.
1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 126 Beasts, kerned Fowls, and barren Fish..as an Ox amongst Beasts, a Capon amongst Birds, and a Pike wounded in the Belly. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Isagoge, The males are more strong..but the kerned are of a better nature. ] |