Yearn \Yearn\, v. i. [OE. yernen, [yogh]ernen, [yogh]eornen, AS. geornian, gyrnan, fr. georn desirous, eager; akin to OS. gern desirous, girnean, gernean, to desire, D. gaarne gladly, willingly, G. gern, OHG. gerno, adv., gern, a., G. gier greed, OHG. gir[=i] greed, ger desirous, ger[=o]n to desire, G. begehren, Icel. girna to desire, gjarn eager, Goth. fa['i]huga['i]rns covetous, ga['i]rnjan to desire, and perhaps to Gr. chai`rein to rejoice, be glad, Skr. hary to desire, to like. [root]33.] To be filled with longing desire; to be harassed or rendered uneasy with longing, or feeling the want of a thing; to strain with emotions of affection or tenderness; to long; to be eager.
Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother; and he sought where to weep. --Gen. xliii. 30.
Your mother's heart yearns towards you. --Addison.
Yearn \Yearn\ (y[~e]rn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Yearned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Yearning}.] [Also earn, ern; probably a corruption of OE. ermen to grieve, AS. ierman, yrman, or geierman, geyrman, fr. earm wretched, poor; akin to D. & G. arm, Icel. armr, Goth. arms. The y- in English is perhaps due to the AS. ge (see {Y-}).] To pain; to grieve; to vex. [Obs.] ``She laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn your heart to see it.'' --Shak.
It yearns me not if men my garments wear. --Shak.
Yearn \Yearn\, v. i. To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn. [Obs.] ``Falstaff he is dead, and we must yearn therefore.'' --Shak.
Yearn \Yearn\, v. i. & t. [See {Yearnings}.] To curdle, as milk. [Scot.]
'There is no call for these skills elsewhere,' he said. Now he is a fish salesman in Loughbrough, a 15-mile drive from his home. What he misses most, he says, is the 'laughs with the lads'. Many ex-miners yearn for the team spirit of the pit.
Typical buyers are people in their late 30s and 40s who shared the rebellious spirit of the times and yearn for something more tangible than their memories, says Heise, who recently added a shelf of out-of-print books by the Chicago Seven.
"Gaviria has committed himself to carrying out the political and social transformation that Colombians yearn for," the Bogota daily newspaper El Espectador said Monday.
They yearn for security and look to their companies to provide it.
The church leaders involved recognize that giving sanctuary requires using civil disobedience, but they yearn for the pope's endorsement.
It is a time when the first breath of freedom stirs the air, and the heart beats to the accelerated rhythm of hope when the accumulated spiritual energies of a long silence yearn to break free.
In part this reflects the whole tournament: lots of great games, no great teams. Brazil's fans yearn for more fantasia than Parreira has been able to provide.
Some scientists continued through the years to yearn for a moon base.
Mr. Boyd says the trauma of the past year makes him yearn for the paper-airplane-throwing, punk-rock-worshipping junior-high-schoolers to whom he used to teach history and English.
Mr. Levinson wants to make us yearn for these bad old tacky days, and you know what?
It's the place where country music stars of tomorrow yearn to perform, waiting up to four months for a precious spot on the tiny stage.
They yearn only for the ritualistic and ongoing, cinema's equivalent of Wimbledon or test cricket.
I offer that as a universal test of travel; boredom, called by any other name, is why you yearn for the first available transport out.
Many Koreans yearn for reunification and are glad the issue has been raised.
The Africa we yearn for is still there to be discovered.