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    { Bourn, 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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    { Bourn, 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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