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verb-intransitive. Scots To complain in a whining voice.

verb-intransitive. Scots To contort one's face; grimace.

v. To grimace; to snarl.

v. To whinge, moan, complain.

v. To make elaborate unnatural and distorted faces as a form of amusement or in a girning competition.

verb-intransitive. To grin.

To grin; snarl.

n. A grin.

n. A yawn.

n. A trap or snare for catching animals, birds, etc.: also used figuratively.

To entrap or ensnare by, or as if by, a girn.

"To wit: "And yet," says he, all chapfallen, "I fear me he will find occasion to clatter at my lady's ear, and mow and girn for his cracked pate to move her pity - and seest thou, father, it will look ill for me, a tenant oppressed crying Justice! and I can do nowt for him, wanting power at hand, and but the bailiff.""

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