yearning : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: yearning	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for yearning
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
yearning n prolonged unfulfilled desire or need [syn: longing, yearning, hungriness]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Yearn \Yearn\ (y[etil]rn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Yearned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Yearning}.] [Also earn, ern; probably a corruption of OE. ermen to grieve, AS. ierman, yrman, or geierman, geyrman, fr. earm wretched, poor; akin to D. & G. arm, Icel. armr, Goth. arms. The y- in English is perhaps due to the AS. ge (see {Y-}).] To pain; to grieve; to vex. [Obs.] [bd]She laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn your heart to see it.[b8] --Shak. It yearns me not if men my garments wear. --Shak.