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he 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.

One accustomed to beat about, or travel through, bushes. [U.S.] They were gallant bushwhackers, and hunters of raccoons by moonlight. W. Irving.

Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream. [U.S.] T. Flint.

ir, litter, or other contrivance fitted to the back or pack saddle of a mule for carrying travelers in mountainous districts, or for the transportation of the sick and wounded of an army.

A humble inn or house of rest for travelers, where coffee is sold. [Turkey]

A caravan of travelers; a military supply train or government caravan; a string of pack horses.

A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar. [Prov. Eng.]

To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers. Had our great palace the capacity To camp this host, we all would sup together. Shak.

One who uses a canoe; one who travels in a canoe. Cabins and clearing greeted the eye of the passing canoeman. Parkman.

sh church. -- Canonical letters, letters of several kinds, formerly given by a dishop to traveling clergymam or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the cammunion, and to distinguish them from heretics. -- Canonical life, the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient cleargy who lived in commun…

h Chaucer puts into the mouths of certain pilgrims to Canterbury. Hence, any tale told by travelers pass away the time.

A small traveling case or bandbox; formerly, a chest. A capcase for your linen and your plate. Beau. & Fl.

r, Parior caretc. , (Railroad), cars especially designed and furnished for the comfort of travelers.

A mile traveled by a single car, taken as a unit of computation, as in computing the average travel of each car of a system during a given period.

A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa.

A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet.

lly drawn by a single native pony and used to convey passengers within city limits or for traveling. It is the common public carriage.

A form of cash carrier in which a small carrier or car travels upon a kind of track.

A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.

Tea; -- the Chinese (Mandarin) name, used generally in early works of travel, and now for a kind of rolled tea used in Central Asia.