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Border   /bˈɔrdər/   Listen
noun
Border  n.  
1.
The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink. "Upon the borders of these solitudes." "In the borders of death."
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.
Synonyms: Edge; verge; brink; margin; brim; rim; boundary; confine.


verb
Border  v. 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."" "Shebah and Raamah... border the sea called the Persian gulf."
3.
To confine within bounds; to limit. (Obs.) "That nature, which contemns its origin, Can not be bordered certain in itself."


Border  v. i.  (past & past part. bordered; pres. part. 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."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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... English, it is recorded, did not loathe the Highlander and the Highland costume as they were loathed by the remainder of the Scotch. Yet the Highlander felt himself a Scot. He would willingly raid into the Scotch lowlands; but his courage failed him at the border, and he regarded England as a perilous, unhomely land. When the Black Watch, after years of foreign service, returned to Scotland, veterans leaped out and kissed the earth at Port Patrick. They had been in Ireland, stationed among men of their own race and language, where they ...
— Memories and Portraits • Robert Louis Stevenson
... window was the Jaeger's table. There they sat, gossiping as usual with the Forester's helpers, a herdsman or two, some woodcutters on their way into or out from the forest, and a pair of smart revenue officers from the Tyrol border, close by. ...
— In the Quarter • Robert W. Chambers
... her young mistress, while endeavouring to work herself into a state of resentment with the unoffending Mr Perch's image, 'if I hadn't more manliness than that insipidest of his sex, I'd never take pride in my hair again, but turn it up behind my ears, and wear coarse caps, without a bit of border, until death released me from my insignificance. I may not be a Amazon, Miss Floy, and wouldn't so demean myself by such disfigurement, but anyways I'm not a ...
— Dombey and Son • Charles Dickens
... The Governor informed President Pierce that the laws were obstructed and openly resisted by bodies of armed men; that prisoners were rescued from the sheriffs, peaceable inhabitants murdered, and houses burned. Another authority informed the President that an overwhelming force was crossing the border for the avowed purpose of invading Kansas and butchering the unoffending Free-State citizens. One side claimed protection from insurrection within, the other from ...
— Robert Toombs - Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage • Pleasant A. Stovall
... of August from a clear blue sky Shone on Lake Saranac. The South-wind stirred Mildly the woods encircling, that threw down A purple shadow on the liquid smoothness Glassing the eastern border, while the west Lay ...
— The Woman Who Dared • Epes Sargent


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