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▪ I. borne, ppl. a.|bɔən|
Forms: see bear v.
1. a. Carried, sustained, endured, etc. Used attrib. chiefly in such constructions as ‘patiently borne injuries’, ‘the breeze-borne note’.
1605Shakes. Macb. iii. ii. 42 The shard-borne Beetle.
b. light borne, easily guided, not hard-mouthed; said of horses. water borne, see quot.
1611Cotgr., Alegerir vn cheval à la main, to..cause a horse to be light borne. 1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. ix. 45 Water borne is when there is no more water than will iust beare her from the ground.
2. a. Comb., with adverbs, as borne-down, borne-in, etc. See bear down, bear in, etc. under bear v.
1600Chapman Iliad xv. 354 In such a borne-up kind The Trojans overgat the Wall. 1637Rutherford Lett. clxx. (1862) I. 399 Intimated and borne-in assurance of His love. 1679King in Spirit of Popery 23 The born-down and Ruined Interest of our Lord and Master. 1878Browning La Saisiaz 10 Blushing ‘Good Night’, rosy as a borne-off bride's.
b. With prefixed n., as air-borne, carrier-borne, chair-borne, glider-borne: see the ns. (See 1944 Amer. Speech XIX. 222 f.)
▪ II. borne
obs. f. bourn; var. berne, Obs., man. |