What is to grin or yawn. [Obs.] "[/He] gaped like a gulf when he did gern." Spenser called?
gern — To grin or yawn. [Obs.] "[/He] gaped like a gulf when he did gern." Spenser. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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