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bourn

1  [bawrn, bohrn]
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–noun Scot. and North England.
burn 2 .
Also, bourne.
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bourn

2  [bawrn, bohrn, boorn]
–noun Archaic.
1. a bound; limit.
2. destination; goal.
3. realm; domain.
Origin:
1515–25; earlier borne < MF, OF, orig. a Picard form of bodne; see bound 3

Related forms:
bournless, adjective

burn

2  [burn]
–noun Scot. and North England.
a brook or rivulet.
Also, bourn, bourne.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME burne, bourne, OE burna, brunna brook; c. Goth brunna, D born, bron, G Brunnen, ON brunnr spring
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bourn 1 also bourne   (bôrn, bōrn, bŏŏrn)   
n.  A small stream; a brook.

[Middle English, from Old English burna; see bhreu- in Indo-European roots.]
bourn 2 also bourne   (bôrn, bōrn, bŏŏrn)   
n.   Archaic

  1. A destination; a goal.

  2. A boundary; a limit.


[French bourne, from French dialectal bosne, borne, from Old French bodne, limit, boundary marker, from Medieval Latin bodina, of Celtic origin.]
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Slang Dictionary
burn

  1. n.
    a cigarette. : Fred just stood there with a burn on his lower lip and his hands in his pockets.
  2. tv.
    to smoke a cigarette. : I need to burn a fag. Just a minute.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

bourn  (1)
"small stream" (also bourne), especially of the winter torrents of the chalk downs, O.E. brunna, from P.Gmc. *brunnoz "spring, fountain" (cf. O.H.G. brunno, O.N. brunnr, O.Fris. burna, Ger. Brunnen "fountain," Goth. brunna "well"), ult. from PIE base *bhreue- "to boil, bubble, effervesce, burn" (see brew).

bourn  (2)
"destination," 1523, from Fr. borne, apparently a variant of bodne (see bound (n.)), used by Shakespeare in Hamlet's soliloquy (1602), from which it entered into Eng. poetic speech. He meant it probably in the correct sense of "boundary," but it has been taken to mean "goal" (Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold) or sometimes "realm" (Keats).
"The dread of something after death, The vndiscouered Countrey; from whose Borne No Traueller returnes." ["Hamlet" III.i.79]

burn 
12c., combination of O.N. brenna "to burn, light," and two originally distinct O.E. verbs: bærnan "to kindle" (trans.) and beornan "to be on fire" (intrans.), both from P.Gmc. *brenwanan, perhaps from PIE *bhre-n-u, from base *bhereu- "to boil forth, well up." This root was also the source of O.E. born, burne "a spring, fountain," still common in place names. Meaning "cheat, swindle, victimize" is first attested 1655. Burnout "drug user" is early 1970s slang. Slow burn first attested 1938, in ref. to U.S. movie actor Edgar Kennedy, who made it his specialty.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 2burn
Function: noun
1 : bodily injury resulting from exposure to heat, caustics, electricity, or some radiations, marked by varyingdegrees of skin destruction and hyperemia often with the formation of watery blisters and in severe cases by charring of the tissues, and classified according to the extent and degree of the injury—see FIRST-DEGREE BURN, SECOND-DEGREEBURN, THIRD-DEGREE BURN
2 : an abrasion having the appearance of a burn burns> burn>
3 : a burning sensation burn of iodine applied to a cut>
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Medical Dictionary

burn (bûrn)
v. burned or burnt (bûrnt), burn·ing, burns

  1. To undergo or cause to undergo combustion.

  2. To consume or use as fuel or energy.

  3. To damage or injure by fire, heat, radiation, electricity, or a caustic agent.

  4. To irritate or inflame, as by chafing or sunburn.

  5. To become sunburned or windburned.

  6. To metabolize a substance, such as glucose, in the body.

  7. To impart a sensation of intense heat to.

  8. To feel or look hot.

n.

  1. An injury produced by fire, heat, radiation, electricity, or a caustic agent.

  2. A burned place or area.

  3. The process or result of burning.

  4. A stinging sensation.

  5. A sunburn or windburn.

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