Spurn \Spurn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spurned; p. pr. & vb. n. Spurning.]

[OE. spurnen to kick against, to stumble over, AS. spurnan to kick, offend; akin to spura spur, OS. & OHG. spurnan to kick, Icel. spyrna, L. spernere to despise, Skr.

1. See Spur.]

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

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

I spurn thee like a cur out of my way. --Shak.

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. --Shak.

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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Spurn \Spurn\, v. i.

1. To kick or toss up the heels.

The miller spurned at a stone. --Chaucer.

The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns. --Gay.

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

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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Spurn \Spurn\, n.

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

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

2. Disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment.

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

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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)