Obs. Forms: 4–6 borned, burned, 5 bourned, boorned. [f. BURN v.2 + -ED.] Burnished; brilliant; often said of gold or silver. (In later instances perh. confused with prec.)
c. 1384. Chaucer, H. Fame, 1387. As burned gold hyt shoon to see. Ibid. (c. 1386), Doctor’s T., 38. Phebus deyed hadde hire tresses … I-lyk to be stremes of his borned hete.
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems (1840), 65. They have espyed … i-graven, in lettris of bourned gold, Maria.
c. 1530. Ld. Berners, Arth. Lyt. Brit. (1814), 156. And in the toppe therof stode an egle of borned golde.
1577–87. Holinshed, Chron., III. 801/1. Their horsses trapped in burned silver.
