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Webster 1828 Edition


Bourn

BOURN

, rather BORNE,
Noun.
1.
A bound; a limit.
That undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns.-------
2.
A brook; a torrent; a rivulet. [In this sense obsolete; but retained in many names of towns, seated on the banks of streams. In Scotland, it is still used in the sense of a brook, but they write it burn.]