rare. [f. BOURN sb.2] trans. To set a limit or bounds to; to bound; to check.

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1808.  J. Barlow, Columb., IV. 338. A second world … By oceans bourn’d.

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1866.  J. Rose, Virg. Ecl. & Georg., 106. Nor rocks, nor precipice, nor torrent’s force Shall bourn his headlong and resistless force.

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