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▪ I. bourn, v. rare.|bɔən|
[f. bourn n.2]
trans. To set a limit or bounds to; to bound; to check.
1808J. Barlow Columb. iv. 338 A second world..By oceans bourn'd. 1866J. Rose Virg. Ecl. & Georg. 106 Nor rocks, nor precipice, nor torrent's force Shall bourn his headlong and resistless force.
▪ II. bourn, bourne, n.1|bɔən|
Forms: (1 burn, burna, 1–3 burne), 4, 7 borne, 4– bourne, 5–7 bowrne, 6–7 boorn(e, 7– bourn.
[A variant of burn, being the form commonly used in the south of England since the 14th c. Originally pronounced like burn, adjourn: but the influence of the r disturbed the pronunciation, as in mourn; whence the mod. spelling and pronunciation.]
A small stream, a brook; often applied (in this spelling) to the winter bournes or winter torrents of the chalk downs. Applied to northern streams it is usually spelt burn.
c1325E.E. Allit. P. A. 973 Bow vp to-warde þys bornez heued. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. Prol. 8 Vndur a brod banke bi a Bourne syde. c1440Bone Flor. 609 Ranne bowrnes all on blode. 1576Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 260 Sundry smal brookes, or boornes. 1612Drayton Polyolb. 3 The Bournes, the Brooks, the Becks, the Rills, the Rivilets. c1630Risdon Surv. Devon §281 (1810) 292 Whereout..a spring breaketh, by some called a borne. 1634Milton Comus 313 And every bosky bourn from side to side. 1657Howell Londinop. 10 Those ancient and present Rivers, Brooks, Boorns, Pools, Wells, Conduits, and Aqueducts, which serve to refresh the City of London. 1757Dyer Fleece ii. 383 He [Drayton] whose rustic muse..sung the bosky bourns of Alfred's shires. a1856Longfellow Happiest Land viii, Over mountain gorge and bourn [rime-wd. horn]. 1879Jefferies Wild Life S. County 22 The villages on the downs are generally on a bourne, or winter water-course..In summer it is a broad winding trench..along whose bed you may stroll dryshod..In winter, the bourne often has the appearance of a broad brook.
fig.c1430Hymns Virg. (1867) 71 In þin herte blood, þat holi bourne [rime-wd. spurn].
▪ III. bourn(e
var. of burn v.2, to burnish.
▪ IV. bourn(e
obs. f. berne, man, wight.
c1325E.E. Allit. P. A. 616 Where wystez þou euer any bourne abate..in his prayere? |