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▪ I. morne, n.1 Antiq.|mɔːn|
Forms: 5 moorne, 6–7 mourne, 8 mourn, 9– morne.
[a. F. morne, vbl. n. f. OF. morner to blunt (a lance), f. morne blunted, dull: see morne a.]
The rebated head of a tilting lance; = coronal n. 3.
The editor of Guillim (quot. 1632) gives an explanation which would make the word synonymous with mornette.
1494in Lett. & Papers Rich. III & Hen. VII (Rolls) I. 399 Thomas Ryder came owt of the towne and to hym was presented ij speres with moornes, where of he toke the choise and Treury toke the toder. Ibid. 400 And Sir Edward A Borough at that cours brac his spere well apon therll of Suffolke; and the said erll glissed on the helme of the said Sir Edward, the wiche ran with speres with moornes. c1500in Strutt's Sports & Past. (1801) Introd. 13 The speare hedded with the morne. a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. (1622) 179 His Lances..so were they coloured with hookes neere the mourne, that they prettily represented sheep⁓hooks. 1632Guillim's Her. iv. xiv. 342 The Iron heads of Tilt-speares..which usually haue six or eight Mournes (for so are those little piked things called, which are on the top or head of this cronell or Coronet). 1824Meyrick Anc. Armour II. 246 Their lances have small points rebated or bent down, called mornes. 1876Jrnl. Brit. Archæol. Assoc. XXXII. 125 We hear of spears, of..tilting-lances with mornes, coronels, and vamplates.
▪ II. ‖ morne, n.2|mɔːn|
[American-French, ? corruption of Sp. morón.]
A small round hill.
1889Harper's Mag. Nov. 846/1 The road..sinks between mornes wooded to their summits.
▪ III. ‖ morne, a.|mɔːn|
[Fr.; believed to be of Teut. origin: cf. mourn v.]
Dismal, dreary.
1844Kinglake Eothen xvi. 215 The chaunt was morne and doleful. 1848Aytoun Danube & Euxine 16 Rolling down my torpid waters Through a silence morne and drear. 1879Mrs. Oliphant Geo. II, I. 14 The morne monotony of the life that lingers out to its last moment.
▪ IV. morne
obs. form of mourn. |