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To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick. [The bird] with his foot will spurn adown his cup. Chaucer. I spurn thee like a cur out of my way. Shak.

A channel at the end of a deck to restrain the water.

One who spurns.

A spurner or contemner; a despiser; a scoffer. [Obs.] Joye.

s most abhorrent from blood and treason. Burke. The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn abhorrent. Clover.

To spurn; to despise. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as spurning the bit. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

Except with; unless with; without. [Obs.] So insolent that he could not go but either spurning equals or trampling on his inferiors. Fuller. Touch not the cat but a glove. Motto of the Mackintoshes.

To kick with the foot; to spurn. Shak.

To treat like a jade; to spurn. [Obs.] Shak.

d war are joyless to him. Addison. [He] pining for the lass, Is joyless of the grove, and spurns the growing grass. Dryden.

t of doing so. Hence, figuratively: To show ugly resistance, opposition, or hostility; to spurn. I should kick, being kicked. Shak.

formality; scholastic doctrines or philosophy. The spirit of the old scholasticism . . . spurned laborious investigation and slow induction. J. P. Smith.

To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush. [Obs.]

omplain; as, a child whimpers. Was there ever yet preacher but there were gainsayers that spurned, that winced, that whimpered against him Latimer.