{ Bourn, 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.