yearn

To have a strong desire for something or to do something; to long for or to do something.alsofigurativelyintransitive

• All I yearn for is a simple life.

To have a strong desire for something or to do something; to long for or to do something.; To long for something in the past with melancholy or nostalgia.alsofigurativelyintransitive

• If I don’t go now, thought Charlotte, I shall have lost a chance which I shall eternally regret and yearn after.
• Having shaken the dust of the ugly new South Africa from his feet, is he yearning for the South Africa of the old days, when Eden was still possible?

Of music, words, etc.: to express strong desire or longing.intransitive

• The music, yearning like a God in pain, / She scarcely heard: […]

To have strong feelings of affection, love, sympathy, etc., toward someone.datedintransitive

• And Joſeph made haſte: for his bowels did yerne upon his brother: and he ſought where to weepe, and hee entred into his chamber, & wept there.
• I have left your mother in the next room. Her heart yearns towards you.

To be distressed or pained; to grieve; to mourn.intransitiveobsolete

• My father’s and my uncle Toby’s hearts yearn’d with ſympathy for the poor fellow’s diſtreſs,—[…]

Often followed by out: to perform (music) which conveys or say (words) which express strong desire or longing.transitive

To have a strong desire or longing (for something or to do something).archaicpoetictransitive

To cause (someone) to have strong feelings of affection, love, sympathy, etc.; also, to grieve or pain (someone).obsoletetransitive

• Well, ſhe laments Sir for it, that it would yern your heart to see it: […]
• It yernes me not, if men my Garments weare; / Nor care I who doth feed vpon my coſt: / Such outward things dwell not in my deſires. / But if it be a ſinne to couet Honor, / I am the moſt offending Soule aliue.

A strong desire or longing; a yearning, a yen.

• Gibbs now said he wasn't going to pull any punches with Gary when he knew how jealous a man could get, so he also wanted to tell him that Phil Hansen was reputed to have a yearn for attractive ladies.
• "After he had made a record date with us in 1935, I always had a yearn for Ben," he said years later.

Of milk: to curdle, especially in the cheesemaking process.Northern-EnglandScotlandintransitive

Of cheese: to be made from curdled milk.Northern-EnglandScotlandintransitive

To curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process.Northern-EnglandScotlandtransitive

To make (cheese) from curdled milk.Northern-EnglandScotlandtransitive

• Also his Honour the Duke will accept ane of our Dunlop cheeses, and it sall be my faut if a better was ever yearned in Lowden.