mourne

See also: Mourne

English

Etymology 1

See morne.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /moɹn/, [mo̞ɹn]
• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɔːn/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
• Homophones: morn, morne, mourn (some only with the horse-hoarse merger)

Noun

mourne (plural mournes)

1. The armed or feruled end of a staff.
2. The end of a sheephook to which the hook is attached.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mourne”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology 2

Verb

mourne (third-person singular simple present mournes, present participle mourning, simple past and past participle mourned or mourn'd)

1. Obsolete spelling of mourn
   • a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, →OCLC:

     Therefore mourne boldly my inke; for while the lookes vpon you, your blacknesse will shine

Anagrams

• Munroe, numero