"gern" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "See grin.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gerns",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gerning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gerned",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gerned",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "gern (third-person singular simple present gerns, present participle gerning, simple past and past participle gerned)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To grin."
      ],
      "id": "en-gern-en-verb-VSuhrrRJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "grin",
          "grin"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To grin."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "32 68",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 24 13 1 1 5 18 26 10 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old Saxon entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13:",
          "text": "[He] gaped like a gulfe, when he did gerne, / That whether man or monster one could scarse discerne",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To yawn."
      ],
      "id": "en-gern-en-verb-B1NcPwtG",
      "links": [
        [
          "yawn",
          "yawn"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To yawn."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɡɜː(ɹ)n/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gern.wav",
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)n"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "gurn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "gern"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English terms with homophones",
    "English verbs",
    "Old Saxon adjectives",
    "Old Saxon adverbs",
    "Old Saxon entries with incorrect language header",
    "Old Saxon lemmas",
    "Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Old Saxon terms with redundant head parameter",
    "Pages with 5 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)n",
    "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)n/1 syllable"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "See grin.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gerns",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gerning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gerned",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gerned",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To grin."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grin",
          "grin"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To grin."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13:",
          "text": "[He] gaped like a gulfe, when he did gerne, / That whether man or monster one could scarse discerne",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To yawn."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "yawn",
          "yawn"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To yawn."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɡɜː(ɹ)n/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gern.wav",
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)n"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "gurn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "gern"
}