yearn

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

All I yearn for is a simple life.

I muſt do that my heart-ſtrings yern to do: but my word's paſt.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Of cheese: to be made from curdled milk.

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

To make (cheese) from curdled milk.

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.