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n. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a medium-sized blackish-gray seal (Cystophora cristata) with a large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic-Atlantic waters.
Syn. -- hooded seal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] A gatepost or doorpost. [ Local Eng. ] C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Dearn, a. ] 1. Hidden; concealed; secret. [ Obs. ] “Ye must be full dern.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Solitary; sad. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ AS. dyrnan to hide. See Dern, a., Dearn, a. ] To hide; to skulk. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He at length escaped them by derning himself in a foxearth. H. Miller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Secret; hence, lonely; sad; mournful. [ Obs. ] “Dernful noise.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ F., from OF. darrein, derrain. See Darrein. ] Last; final. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dernier ressort ety>[ F. ], last resort or expedient. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Secretly; grievously; mournfully. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Made of elder. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He would discharge us as boys do eldern guns. Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. moderne, L. modernus; akin to modo just now, orig. abl. of modus measure; hence, by measure, just now. See Mode. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the present time, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. New and common; trite; commonplace. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

We have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Modern English. See the Note under English. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Modernization. [ Chiefly Brit. ]
Syn. -- modernizing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Certain methods and tendencies which, in Biblical questions, apologetics, and the theory of dogma, in the endeavor to reconcile the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church with the conclusions of modern science, replace the authority of the church by purely subjective criteria; -- so called officially by Pope Pius X. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. F. moderniste. ] 1. One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An advocate of the teaching of modern subjects, as modern languages, in preference to the ancient classics. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. Conspicuously (sometimes outrageously) modern in style or appearance; as, shiny tables in modernistic design. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Modernness; something modern. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Modernized p. pr. & vb. n. Modernizing ] [ Cf. F. moderniser. ] To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste. Percy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who modernizes. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In modern times. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being modern; recentness; novelty. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time. Opposite of modern. [ Narrower terms: antebellum; fogyish, mossgrown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud(prenominal), stodgy old-fashioned; medieval, mediaeval, gothic; old-time, quaint; unmodernized; victorian; old-fashioned, outmoded; old-world ] Also See: old, past. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. undern; akin to OS. undorn, OHG. untarn, untorn, Icel. undorn mid afternoon, mid forenoon, Goth. undaúrnimats the midday meal. Cf. Undermeal, Undertime. ] The time between; the time between sunrise and noon; specifically, the third hour of the day, or nine o'clock in the morning, according to ancient reckoning; hence, mealtime, because formerly the principal meal was eaten at that hour; also, later, the afternoon; the time between dinner and supper. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Betwixt undern and noon was the field all won. R. of Brunne. [ 1913 Webster ]

In a bed of worts still he lay
Till it was past undern of the day. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ OE. undirnepe. See Under, and Beneath. ] Beneath; below; in a lower place; under; as, a channel underneath the soil. [ 1913 Webster ]

Or sullen mole, that runneth underneath. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. Under; beneath; below. [ 1913 Webster ]

Underneath this stone lie
As much beauty as could die. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Undernom ] [ OE. undernimen. See Under, and Nim. ] 1. To receive; to perceive. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He the savor undernom
Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To reprove; to reprehend. [ Obs. ] Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]