Spurn /(spûrn)/

imp. & p. p. Spurned; p. pr. & vb. n. Spurning

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

   [The bird] with his foot will spurn adown his cup.

   I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.

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

   What safe and nicely I might well delay By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn.

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

1. To kick or toss up the heels.

   The miller spurned at a stone.

   The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns.

2. To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance.

   Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image.

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

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

2. Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.

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

3. A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass. (Mining)