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Webster 1913 Edition

Border

Bor′der

,
Noun.
[OE.
bordure
, F.
bordure
, fr.
border
to border, fr.
bord
a border; of German origin; cf. MHG. borte border, trimming, G.
borte
trimming, ribbon; akin to E.
board
in sense 8. See
Board
,
Noun.
, and cf.
Bordure
.]
1.
The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
Upon the
borders
of these solitudes.
Bentham.
In the
borders
of death.
Barrow.
2.
A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
3.
A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.
4.
A narrow flower bed.
Border land
,
land on the frontiers of two adjoining countries; debatable land; – often used figuratively; as, the border land of science.
–
The Border
,
The Borders
,
specifically, the frontier districts of Scotland and England which lie adjacent.
–
Over the border
,
across the boundary line or frontier.
Syn. – Edge; verge; brink; margin; brim; rim; boundary; confine.

Bor′der

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Bordered
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Bordering
.]
1.
To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; – with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
2.
To approach; to come near to; to verge.
Wit which
borders
upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly.
Abp. Tillotson.

Bor′der

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament;
as, to
border
a garment or a garden
.
2.
To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary;
as, the region
borders
a forest, or is
bordered
on the north by a forest
.
The country is
bordered
by a broad tract called the “hot region.”
Prescott.
Shebah and Raamah . . .
border
the sea called the Persian gulf.
Sir W. Raleigh.
3.
To confine within bounds; to limit.
[Obs.]
That nature, which contemns its origin,
Can not be
bordered
certain in itself.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition

Border

BORD'ER

,
Noun.
The outer edge of any thing; the extreme part or surrounding line; the confine or exterior limit of a country, or of any region or tract of land; the exterior part or edge of a garment, or of the corol of plants; the rim or brim of a vessel, but not often applied to vessels; the exterior part of a garden, and hence a bank raised at the side of a garden, for the cultivation of flowers, and a row of plants; in short, the outer part or edge of things too numerous to be specified.

BORD'ER

,
Verb.
I.
To confine; to touch at the edge, side or end; to be contiguous or adjacent; with on or upon; as, Connecticut on the north borders on or upon Massachusetts.
1.
To approach near to.
Wit, which borders upon profaneness, deserves to be branded as folly.

BORD'ER

,
Verb.
T.
To make a border; to adorn with a border of ornaments; as, to border a garment or a garden.
1.
To reach to; to touch at the edge or end; to confine upon; to be contiguous to.
Sheba and Raamah border the Persian gulf.
2.
To confine within bounds; to limit. [Not used.]

Definition 2024

börder

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Noun

börder

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