v. Obs. Forms: 3 (Orm.) þarrnenn, 4 þarn, 4–5 tharn(e, (thorne). [ad. ON. þarna, refl. þarnask to be without, lack, want, f. þarna (earlier *þarf-na) sb. need, f. þarf-: see THARF v.] trans. To be without; to want, lack, need; to be deprived of, to lose. Hence † Tharning vbl. sb., being without, lacking, want; losing, loss.
c. 1200. Ormin, 10142. Þatt illke þing þatt tu full wel Ne mihht te sellf nohhi þarrnenn.
c. 1300. Havelok, 2835. Hise children sulde þarne Euere more þat eritage, Þat his was.
13[?]. Cursor M., 4284 (Cott.). O quat pine es herder threst, Þen tharn [Fairf. wante] þe thing men luues best.
1340. Hampole, Pr. Consc., 7308. Right swa þe tharnyng for ever of þat syght, Es þe mast payne in helle dyght.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xvi. (Magdalena), 443. & scho þe lyf allane [allace?] can thorne Fra þat ilke barne wes borne.
c. 1440. York Myst., xliii. 12. The missing of my maistir trewe … Makis me to morne … For tharnyng of his company.
c. 1460. Towneley Myst., xiv. 272. Thy waryson shalle thou not tharne.
