Bourn

Definition of Bourn

n.	1.	A stream or rivulet; a burn. My little boat can safely pass this perilous bourn. - Spenser.
	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.

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