▪ I. † boorn Obs.
[cf. ‘Exmoor bourn yeast’ (Halliw.).]
‘Wort, or boiled liquor.’ (Fuller.)
| 1609 C. Butler Fem. Mon. x, The end of boiling is thoroughly to incorporate the Boorne and the Honie. 1662 Fuller Worthies iv. 6 [in a receipt for metheglin] Take..one Gallon of the finest Honey, and put it into the Boorn. |
▪ II. boorn(e
obs. form of bourn, a brook.