(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:00:53

Derne (?), v. t. & i. [AS. dyrnan to hide. See Dern, a., Dearn, a.]

To hide; to skulk.

[Scot.]

He at length escaped them by derning himself in a foxearth. H. Miller.

 

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