"wern" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_text": "See warn.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "werns",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "werning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "werned",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "werned",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wern (third-person singular simple present werns, present participle werning, simple past and past participle werned)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To refuse."
      ],
      "id": "en-wern-en-verb-mjwfVFq0",
      "links": [
        [
          "refuse",
          "refuse"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, transitive) To refuse."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wern"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "weren"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English weren",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "were",
        "3": "en",
        "id2": "plural present"
      },
      "expansion": "were + -en",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English weren, equivalent to were + -en.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "wern",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "5 95",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 92",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -en (plural present)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1450, The Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers",
          "text": "And thanne he seide to other folkes that thei shulde seye somme goode thinges for to recomforte the lordes and the people, which werne in grete trouble as for the deth of the moste noble kinge that ever was.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1469, Margaret Paston, The Paston Letters",
          "text": "And she rehearsed what she had said, and said if tho words made it not sure she said boldly that she would make it surer ere than she went thence; for she said she thought in her conscience she was bound, whatsoever the words wern.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910, “Glasgerion”, in Arthur Quiller-Couch, editor, The Oxford Book of English Verse",
          "text": "Through the falseness of that lither lad\nThese three lives wern all gone.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "be"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "plural simple past of be"
      ],
      "id": "en-wern-en-verb-PcZRbL8U",
      "links": [
        [
          "be",
          "be#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) plural simple past of be"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "obsolete",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wern"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms suffixed with -en (plural present)",
    "English verb forms",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_text": "See warn.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "werns",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "werning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "werned",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "werned",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wern (third-person singular simple present werns, present participle werning, simple past and past participle werned)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To refuse."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "refuse",
          "refuse"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, transitive) To refuse."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wern"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms suffixed with -en (plural present)",
    "English verb forms"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
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      },
      "expansion": "Middle English weren",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "were",
        "3": "en",
        "id2": "plural present"
      },
      "expansion": "were + -en",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English weren, equivalent to were + -en.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "wern",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1450, The Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers",
          "text": "And thanne he seide to other folkes that thei shulde seye somme goode thinges for to recomforte the lordes and the people, which werne in grete trouble as for the deth of the moste noble kinge that ever was.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1469, Margaret Paston, The Paston Letters",
          "text": "And she rehearsed what she had said, and said if tho words made it not sure she said boldly that she would make it surer ere than she went thence; for she said she thought in her conscience she was bound, whatsoever the words wern.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910, “Glasgerion”, in Arthur Quiller-Couch, editor, The Oxford Book of English Verse",
          "text": "Through the falseness of that lither lad\nThese three lives wern all gone.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "be"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "plural simple past of be"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "be",
          "be#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) plural simple past of be"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "obsolete",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wern"
}