From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bourn \Bourn\, Bourne \Bourne\, n. [F. borne. See {Bound} a
limit.]
A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal.
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Where the land slopes to its watery bourn. --Cowper.
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The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveler returns. --Shak.
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Sole bourn, sole wish, sole object of my song.
--Wordsworth.
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To make the doctrine . . . their intellectual bourne.
--Tyndall.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bourn \Bourn\, Bourne \Bourne\, n. [OE. burne, borne, AS. burna;
akin to OS. brunno spring, G. born, brunnen, OHG. prunno,
Goth. brunna, Icel. brunnr, and perh. to Gr. ?. The root is
prob. that of burn, v., because the source of a stream seems
to issue forth bubbling and boiling from the earth. Cf.
{Torrent}, and see {Burn}, v.]
A stream or rivulet; a burn.
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My little boat can safely pass this perilous bourn.
--Spenser.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bourn
n 1: an archaic term for a boundary [syn: {bourn}, {bourne}]
2: an archaic term for a goal or destination [syn: {bourn},
{bourne}]
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