Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Bourn

/bôrn/ · IPA /boɹn/

01 n. A stream or rivulet; a burn.

1.
A stream or rivulet; a burn.
“My little boat can safely pass this perilous bourn.” — Spenser.

02 n. A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal.

1.
A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal.
“Where the land slopes to its watery bourn.” — Cowper.

“The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveler returns.” — Shak.

“Sole bourn, sole wish, sole object of my song.” — Wordsworth.

“To make the doctrine . . . their intellectual bourne.” — Tyndall.