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Definition of Bourn

Bourn
Bourn Bourn, Bourne 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. My little boat can safely pass this perilous bourn. --Spenser.
Bourn
Bourn Bourn, Bourne Bourne, n. [F. borne. See Bound a limit.] 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.

Meaning of Bourn from wikipedia

- Bourn is a small village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England. Surrounding villages include Caxton, Eltisley and Cambourne. It is 8 miles...
- Bourn Castle was in the village of Bourn in Cambridgeshire, 10 miles to the west of Cambridge (grid reference TL322562). It originally consisted of wooden...
- Bourn Brook is a common name for small rivers, reflected in a number of place names. See: Bourn Brook, Cambridgeshire Bournbrook, Birmingham named after...
- Bourn Hall Clinic in Bourn, Cambridgeshire, England, is a centre for the treatment of infertility. The original building, Bourn Hall, is about 400 years...
- Michael Ray Bourn (born December 27, 1982) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) center fielder who pla**** for the Philadelphia Phillies,...
- Bourns may refer to: Arthur Bourns (1919–2015), chemistry professor and university administrator Frank Swift Bourns (1866–1935), ornithologist and doctor...
- first to see the embryonic cells dividing. Purdy was a co-founder of the Bourn Hall Clinic but her role there and in the development of IVF was ignored...
- Thomas Bourn (19 April 1771 – 20 August 1832) was an English schoolteacher and educational writer. Bourn was born in Hackney, Middle**** (now part of London)...
- Royal Air Force Bourn or more simply RAF Bourn is a former Royal Air Force station located 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Bourn, Cambridgeshire and 6.9 miles...
- Daniel Bourn was an English inventor, who took out a patent for a carding machine with rotating cylinders in 1748. Though Bourn is thought likely to have...