Definition of "erne"

erne¹

/ɜːn/

noun
plural ernes
1. A sea eagle (Haliaeetus), especially the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)
  Quotations
  Ahoi! come kite! Ahoi! come erne from off the fen!
  1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 20, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 274
  [T]his is an in-depth study of the Erne (to use the old Anglo-Saxon name for this eagle).
  1985, Amadon, Dean, “Review of The Return of the Sea Eagle”, in The Auk‎, volume 102, number 1, pages 218-19
2. (chiefly poetic, dialectal, sciences) An eagle.

erne²

/ɜːn/

verb
1. (obsolete) To long; to yearn.