\Scorn\ (sk[^o]rn), n. [OE. scorn, scarn, scharn, OF.
escarn, escharn, eschar, of German origin; cf. OHG. skern
mockery, skern[=o]n to mock; but cf. also OF. escorner to
mock.]
1. Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that
   disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter
   meanness and unworthiness of an object.
         Scorn at first makes after love the more. --Shak.
         And wandered backward as in scorn, To wait an [ae]on
         to be born.                           --Emerson.
2. An act or expression of extreme contempt.
         Every sullen frown and bitter scorn But fanned the
         fuel that too fast did burn.          --Dryden.
3. An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.
         Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn
         and a derision to them that are round about us.
                                               --Ps. xliv.
                                               13.
{To think scorn}, to regard as worthy of scorn or contempt;
   to disdain. ``He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai
   alone.'' --Esther iii. 6.
{To laugh to scorn}, to deride; to make a mock of; to
   ridicule as contemptible.
Syn: Contempt; disdain; derision; contumely; despite; slight;
     dishonor; mockery.

\Scorn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scorned} (sk[^o]rnd); p. pr.
& vb. n. {Scoring}.] [OE. scornen, scarnen, schornen, OF.
escarnir, escharnir. See {Scorn}, n.]
1. To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of
   regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain.
         I scorn thy meat; 't would choke me.  --Shak.
         This my long sufferance, and my day of grace, Those
         who neglect and scorn shall never taste. --Milton.
         We scorn what is in itself contemptible or
         disgraceful.                          --C. J. Smith.
2. To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of
   insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride.
         His fellow, that lay by his bed's side, Gan for to
         laugh, and scorned him full fast.     --Chaucer.
         To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously. --Shak.
Syn: To contemn; despise; disdain. See {Contemn}.

\Scorn\ (sk[^o]rn), v. i.
To scoff; to mock; to show contumely, derision, or reproach;
to act disdainfully.
      He said mine eyes were black and my hair black, And,
      now I am remembered, scorned at me.      --Shak.