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   Spurn , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spurned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Spurning.] [OE. spurnen to kick against, to stumble over, AS. spurnan to kick, offend; akin to spura spur, OS. & OHG. spurnan to kick, Icel. spyrna, L. spernere to despise, Skr. sphur to jerk, to push. √171. See Spur.]
   To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.
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   [The bird] with his foot will spurn adown his cup.
   Chaucer.
   
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   I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.
   Shak.
   
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   To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt.
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   What safe and nicely I might well delay
   By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn.
   Shak.
   
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   Domestics will pay a more cheerful service when they find themselves not spurned because fortune has laid them at their master's feet.
   Locke.
   
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   Spurn, v. i.
   To kick or toss up the heels.
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   The miller spurned at a stone.
   Chaucer.
   
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   The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns.
   Gay.
   
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   To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance.
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   Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image.
   Shak.
   
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   Spurn, n.
   A kick; a blow with the foot. [R.]
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   What defense can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn?
   Milton.
   
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   Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
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   The insolence of office, and the spurns
   That patient merit of the unworthy takes.
   Shak.
   
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   (Mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.
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