Lorn vs Xorn - What's the difference?
lorn | xorn |
(obsolete) lost, doomed
(archaic) abandoned, lonely, forlorn
* 1874 , , XIX
* 1963': He never found his beloved machine gun. '''Lorn and drained-nervous, he was fired next day. — Thomas Pynchon, ''V.
(fantasy) A fictional monster that devours earthen and silicate materials and can move freely through earth.
* 2002 , "David Damerell", Where are they come from?(SIC) ;)'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.roguelike.development )
* 2007 , "bear", Makes Lovely Julienne Ogres....'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.roguelike.angband )
* 2010 , Roger Bourke White, Rostov Rising: The Tales of Baron Rostov (page 229)
As an adjective lorn
is (obsolete) lost, doomed.As a noun xorn is
(fantasy) a fictional monster that devours earthen and silicate materials and can move freely through earth.lorn
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The mighty river flowing dark and deep, (...)
- Is named the River of the Suicides;
- For night by night some lorn wretch overweary,(...)
- Within its cold secure oblivion hides.
Derived terms
* lorness * lovelornAnagrams
*xorn
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Various monsters can tunnel through rock - either humanoid monsters with picks or rock eaters like rock moles and umber hulks; and some monsters like xorns and ghosts can pass through it without digging.
- Teleporting from an open room where there were a dozen black orcs firing bows at me and more pouring in through both doors a few nights ago didn't work the first two times, then when it did work it landed me, low on mana and hitpoints, in a room full of gnome mages who instantly summoned four umber hulks and a xorn !
- That afternoon, I summoned a Xorn —an earth elemental noted for its speed—and asked it to scout the caves of the Dragon's lair for me.