Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for YEARN, or YERN
YEARN, or YERNYEARN'FUL, or YERN'FUL
YEARN, or YERN, v.t.
To pain; to grieve; to vex. She laments for it, that it would Yearn your heart to see it. – Shak. It yearns me not if men my garments wear. – Shak. [Obs.]
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