Spurn | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Spûrn, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. SPURNED; p. pr. & vb. n. SPURNING.] [A-S. spurnan, spornan, to kick, offend, allied to spura, heel; O. H. Ger. spurnōn, spornōn, spurnan, spornan, sporōn, to kick. See SPUR.]

Sense 1. To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.

I spurn thee like a cur. Shak.

Sense 2. To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt.

The rule of knighthood I disdain and spurn. Shak.

Domestics will pay a more cheerful service, when they find themselves not spurned because fortune has laid them at their masters' feet. Locke.

Spûrn, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. 1. To kick or toss up the heels. The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns. Gay.

Sense 2. To manifest disdain in rejecting any thing; to make contemptuous opposition; to manifest disdain in resistance. “Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image.” Shak.

Spûrn, n.

noun

Sense 1. A kick; a blow with the foot. [Rare.]

What defense can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn? Milton.

Sense 2. Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.

*The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes. Shak.*

Sense 3. A spur; a shoot. [Obs.] Holland.