Defn: A mullet (Mugil capito) found in the rivers of Southern Europe and in Africa.
BOURN; BOURNE Bourn, Bourne, n. Etym: [OE. burne, borne, AS. burna; akin to OS. brunno spring, G. born, brunnen, OHG. prunno, Goth. brunna, Icel. brunnr, and perh. to Gr. burn, v., because the source of a stream seems to issue forth bubbling and boiling from the earth. Cf. Torrent, and see Burn, v.]
Defn: A stream or rivulet; a burn.
My little boat can safely pass this perilous bourn. Spenser.
BOURN; BOURNE
Bourn, Bourne, n. Etym: [F. borne. See Bound a limit.]
Defn: 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.
BOURNLESS
Bourn"less, a.
Defn: Without a bourn or limit.
BOURNONITE
Bour"non*ite, n. Etym: [Named after Count Bournon, a minerologist.]
(Min.)
Defn: A mineral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper.
BOURNOUS
Bour*nous", n.