Bourn
Bourn ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Old English burne, borne, Anglo-Saxon burna; akin to Old Saxon brunno spring, German born, brunnen, Old High German prunno, Gothic brunna, Icelandic brunnr, and perh. to Greek {not transcribed}. The root is prob. that of burn, v., because the source of a stream seems to issue forth bubbling and boiling from the earth. Compare Torrent, and see Burn, v.]
A stream or rivulet; a burn.
My little boat can safely pass this perilous bourn.
Also: Bourne
Bourn ({not transcribed}) , noun
[French borne. See Bound a limit.]
A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal.
Where the land slopes to its watery bourn.
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveler returns.
Sole bourn, sole wish, sole object of my song.
To make the doctrine... their intellectual bourne.
Also: Bourne