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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.

Made of alder.

One of a breed of cattle raised in Alderney, one of the Channel Islands. Alderneys are of a dun or tawny color and are often called Jersey cattle. See Jersey, 3.

Made of elder. [Obs.] He would discharge us as boys do eldern guns. Marston.

or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. Bacon.

Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.

One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.

Modernness; something modern. Walpole.

The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.

To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste. Percy.

One who modernizes.

In modern times. Milton.

The quality or state of being modern; recentness; novelty. M. Arnold.

The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).

later, the afternoon; the time between dinner and supper. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Betwixt undern and noon was the field all won. R. of Brunne. In a bed of worts still he lay Till it was past undern of the day. Chaucer.

Beneath; below; in a lower place; under; as, a channel underneath the soil. Or sullen mole, that runneth underneath. Milton.