Definition of "girned" [girned]

• Simple past tense and past participle of girn. (verb)

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• "Shamie started the saw he had borrowed and it whined and girned, echoing round the small wood."
• "When that he had said these wordis, the horned Bischopis and thare complices cryed, and girned [413] with thare teith, saying, "See ye not what colouris he hath in his speich, that he may begile us, and seduce us to his opinioun.""
• "She would have thrown it from her that time, for she was like a quick-tempered boy, but at her angry movement the old dog girned at me, and the rumble o 'his growl made us look, and there he was ready to spring at me, and it makes me laugh yet; for Mirren, my own quick-tempered lass, fondled my hand at her waist to quieten him."