Spurn
Spurn (spûrn) , transitive verb
[Old English spurnen to kick against, to stumble over, Anglo-Saxon spurnan to kick, offend; akin to spura spur, Old Saxon & Old High German spurnan to kick, Icelandic spyrna, Latin spernere to despise, Sanskrit sphur to jerk, to push. r171. See Spur.]
1.
To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.
[The bird] with his foot will spurn adown his cup.
I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.
2.
To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt.
What safe and nicely I might well delay
By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn.
Domestics will pay a more cheerful service when they find themselves not spurned because fortune has laid them at their master's feet.
Spurn , intransitive verb
1.
To kick or toss up the heels.
The miller spurned at a stone.
The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns.
2.
To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance.
Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image.
Spurn , noun
1.
A kick; a blow with the foot. [Rare]
What defense can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn?
2.
Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes.
3.
(Mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.