Bible Dictionaries
Bourn
King James Dictionary
BOURN, rather BORNE, n.
1. A bound a limit.
That undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns.-------
2. A brook a torrent a rivulet. In this sense obsolete but retained in many names of towns, seated on the banks of streams. In Scotland, it is still used in the sense of a brook, but they write it burn.
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