{ } n. [ OE. burne, borne, AS. burna; akin to OS. brunno spring, G. born, brunnen, OHG. prunno, Goth. brunna, Icel. brunnr, and perh. to Gr. &unr_;. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

My little boat can safely pass this perilous bourn. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. borne. See Bound a limit. ] A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where the land slopes to its watery bourn. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveler returns. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sole bourn, sole wish, sole object of my song. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

To make the doctrine . . . their intellectual bourne. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without a bourn or limit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named after Count Bournon, a mineralogist. ] (Min.) A mineral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Burnoose. [ 1913 Webster ]