Sc. Obs. Also 7 uren, 9 ern. [Of obscure origin.]
1. trans. To cause pain or anguish to (a person); to pain, irritate. Also absol.
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, V. 384. So bett I am with strakis sad and sar; The cheyle wattir vrned me mekill mar.
1559. Reg. St. Andrews Kirk Session (S.H.S.), I. 18. Give thei be vexed and urnet with ustioun and urgent appetites of the flesche.
a. 1600. Montgomerie, Misc. Poems, xl. 58. Let furious Faits be fearce; Let absence vrne; let Cupids arrou peirce.
a. 1614. J. Melvill, Autob. & Diary (Wodrow Soc.), 270. When he died, I mervelit at my awin hart that was so urened and moved with it.
1808. Jamieson, To urn the ee, to pain the eye, as a mote or a grain of sand does. Ibid. (1825), Suppl., s.v. Ern, Nae sae muckle as would ern your ee.
2. intr. To feel or suffer pain. rare–1.
a. 1600. Montgomerie, Sonn., xxxvi. 4. I vrne for anger, ȝit I haif no yre.
