To obtrude one’s self on another for bed and board.
[Scot.]
Sir W. Scott.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sorn
SOREHON
, SORN,
Noun.
A kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously, whenever he wished to indulge himself in a debauch. So that when a person obtrudes himself on another for bed and board, he is said to sorn, or be a sorner.