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In a concerned manner; solicitously; sympathetically.

ining to; regarding; having relation to; respecting; as regards. I have accepted thee concerning this thing. Gen. xix. 21. The Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel. Num. x. 29.

A society or body of men united for some purpose, or in some profession; a brotherhood.

n; terror, combined with amaxement; dismay. The chiefs around, In silence wrapped, in onsternation downed. Attend the stern reply. Pope.

ng together; familiar; in companionship. Humble folk ben Christes friends: they ben contubernial with the Lord, thy King. Chaucer.

Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth (b. 1473, d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Copernican system.

The puffin.

Contrary to nature. [R.] Harvey.

To perceive, discern, or decide. [Obs.] Granmer.

A decree or sentence of a court. Stormonth.

Nimbleness; agility. [Obs.]

Hidden; concealed; secret. [Obs.] "Ye must be full dern." Chaucer.

To hide; to skulk. [Scot.] He at length escaped them by derning himself in a foxearth. H. Miller.

Secret; hence, lonely; sad; mournful. [Obs.] "Dernful noise." Spenser.

Last; final. Dernier ressort ( Etym: [F.], last resort or expedient.

Secretly; grievously; mournfully. [Obs.] Spenser.

ifferences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish. To discern such buds as are fit to produce blossoms. Boyle. A counterfeit stone which thine eye can not discern from a right stone. Robynson (More's Utopia).

Discernment. [Obs.]

One who, or that which, discerns, distinguishes, perceives, or judges; as, a discerner of truth, of right and wrong. A great observer and discerner of men's natures. Clarendon.

Capable of being discerned by the eye or the understanding; as, a star is discernible by the eye; the identity of difference of ideas is discernible by the understanding. The effect of the privations and sufferings . . . was discernible to the last in his temper and deportment. Macaulay.