(a) To be stinting; (b) to deny a request to (sb.); (c) to refuse to give or share (sth.); refuse (sth. to sb., sb. sth.);—occas. with obj. in gen. or of phrase; also, refuse (sb. a request); (d) to refuse to yield (a person in one’s keeping); refuse to yield (a person or an animal in one’s keeping to sb.); also, refuse to give (one’s daughter to sb. as a bride); refuse to make available (one’s physical ability to sb.) [last quot.]; (e) to refuse to do something; refuse (to do sth.); also fig.

(a) To hinder (sb., an animal), impede; keep (sb. from an intended plan of action); deny (sb.) access to (sth.) [quot. ?a1425]; also, render (sth.) impractical or impossible; also, physiol. stop passage of (a bodily fluid); (b) with inf.: to prevent (sb. or sth. from being or doing sth.), obstruct; also, with that clause: prevent (that sth. be done), hinder; (c) to block (an entrance, a route, etc. to sb.), deny (sb. entrance, etc.); deny (sb.) entrance to or presence in (a place); also fig. [1st quot.]; also, exclude (sb. from a place, an assembly); (d) ?to block (an entrance); ?refuse to enter (a gate).

(a) To guard (against sth.) [1st quot.]; resist, endure [quot. a1450 Castle Love(1)]; also, withstand (sth.), resist; ppl. werning as adj.: conducive to moral resolution, stiffening; (b) to oppose (a will, plans); also, contradict (a statement, writings); (c) to forbid (sth.); also, forbid (sb. to do sth.); forbid (sb.) to do something [quot. a1400(c1303), 1st]; also, forbid (sth. to be used, possessed, etc.); (d) to refuse to accept (sth.), reject; (e) to restrain (sth.), hold back.

?To be deprived of (sb.);—?error for tharnen v.

In surname.