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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."





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... saw Maria Clara, Victoria, and Sinang wading along the border of the brook. They were moving forward with their eyes fixed on the crystal waters, seeking the enchanted nest of the heron, wet to their knees so that the wide folds of their bathing skirts revealed the graceful ...
— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal
... o'clock in the morning, Mr Banks's servant, Peter Briscoe, discovered land, bearing south, at the distance of about three or four leagues. I immediately hauled up for it, and found it to be an island of an oval form, with a lagoon in the middle, which occupied much the larger part of it; the border of land which circumscribes the lagoon is in many places very low and narrow, particularly on the south side, where it consists principally of a beach or reef of rocks: It has the same appearance also in three places on the north side; so that the firm ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 12 • Robert Kerr
... a mild deliquescence; and the pillars were spotted as if Nature had dropped over the too early ruin a few unclean tears. The house itself was lifted upon a broad wooden foundation painted to imitate marble with such hopeless mendacity that the architect at the last moment had added a green border, and the owner permitted a fallen board to remain off so as to allow a few privileged fowls to openly explore the interior. When Miss Sally Dows played the piano in the drawing-room she was at times ...
— Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... rising ground on this side of the river to that on the opposite side. The stream winds through the midst of the flat space, without any banks at all; for it fills its bed almost to the brim, and bathes the meadow grass on either side. A tuft of shrubbery, at broken intervals, is scattered along its border; and thus it meanders sluggishly along, without other life than what it gains from gleaming in the sun. Now, into the broad, smooth meadow, as into a lake, capes and headlands put themselves forth, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 • Various
... first question at which Sir James attempted to unclose his hitherto smiling and amused lip. Then it quivered, and the dew glittered in his eyes as he answered, 'Brook it! No indeed, lady. His heart burns within him at every cry that comes over the Border, and will well-nigh burst at what I have seen and heard! King Harry tells him that to send him home were but tossing him on the swords of the Albany. Better, better so, to die in one grapple for his country's ...
— The Caged Lion • Charlotte M. Yonge


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