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