What is to refuse. [Obs.] He is too great a niggard that will wern A man to light a candle at his lantern. Chaucer called?
wern — To refuse. [Obs.] He is too great a niggard that will wern A man to light a candle at his lantern. Chaucer. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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