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An archaic term for a boundary
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bourn
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 ...
Wikipedia
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Bourn is a small village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire , England. Surrounding villages include Caxton , Eltisley and Cambourne . It is 8 miles (12 km) from the county town of Cambridge . The population of the parish was 1,015 people at the time ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"destination," 1520s, from French borne , apparently a variant of bodne (see bound (n.)). Used by Shakespeare in Hamlet's soliloquy (1602), from which it entered into English poetic speech. He meant it probably in the correct sense of "boundary," but it ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an archaic term for a boundary [syn: bourne ] an archaic term for a goal or destination [syn: bourne ]
Usage examples of bourn.
And three days more of following the Seine will bring us to the bourn dreamed of by every circus artiste on earth.
On our way to find a bus stop we saw the subway crowds drop into openings in the earth, on their way up the length of Manhattan or under rivers to the bourns and orchards, there to be educated in false innocence, in the rites of isolation.
To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
The Abbey of Five Pivots was built after the daemon uprising, and so all its power points were built over bourn lines.
It was what had made him order the massed deaths of the Ramahan, why he had insisted on the alliance with the Sarakkon who could enter the Abbey of Five Pivots at will without worrying about the power bourns.
Apparently, nowadays very few Ramahan could even feel the bourns, let alone attempt remapping them.