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BORDERS
Verb
borders
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of border
Noun
borders
plural of border
Anagrams
• roberds
Proper noun
Borders
plural of Border
Scottish Borders
Anagrams
• roberds
Source: Wiktionary
BORDER
Bor"der, n. Etym: [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, n., 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, v. 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, 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." 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. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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