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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[See 1st

To refuse.

[Obs.]

He is too great a niggard that will

wern

A man to light a candle at his lantern.

Chaucer.

wern ‎(third-person singular simple present werns, present participle werning, simple past and past participle werned)

(obsolete, transitive) To refuse.
He is too great a niggard that will wern / A man to light a candle at his lantern. — Chaucer.