\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.
sphur to jerk, to push. [root]171. 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.

\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.

\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.