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▪ I. curn, n. north. and Sc.
[? Related to curn v.]
†1. pl. Grain, corn-crops. Obs.
c1340Cursor M. 7158 (Trin.) To her tailes fire he bond..Þourȝe þe felde he made hem fle And so her curnes dud he brenne.
2. Sc. A grain.
1474Act. Audit. 35 (Jam.) Of ilk chalder the thrid kurne. c1540Lyndesay Kitteis Conf. 90 Curnis of meil, and luffillis of Malt. 1759Fountainhall Decis. Lords of Council I. 334 (Jam.) The seed, which is excepted from the multure; this is the 4th pickle or curne. 1824Scott Redgauntlet ch. xiii, If there be a drap mair lemon or a curn less sugar than just suits you. 1881‘J. Strathesk’ Bits fr. Blink Bonny (1882) 137, I boil'd their meal and put a curn o' spice in't.
b. transf. A small number or quantity; a few.
1785Jrnl. from Lond. to Portsm. 8 (Jam.), I saw a curn of camla-like fellows wi' them. 1787W. Taylor Scots Poems 72 (Jam.), I frae the neuk fresh coals an' sticks, An' i' the chimly cast a curn. 1820St. Kathleen IV. 143 (Jam.), Only a curn bubbles brak on the tap. 1847H. Miller Geol. Bass Rock 109 Yonder's a curn o' rough hills. 1891A. Matthews Poems & Songs 54 Among a curn claikin' wives.
▪ II. curn, v.
Early form of kern, to form grains, to granulate.
1297R. Glouc. (1724) 490 Tho grene corn in somer ssolde curne. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xiii. 180 Shal neuer spir springen vp ne spik on strawe curne [v.r. kerne, kurne]. |