Border
Border ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Old English bordure, French bordure, from border to border, from bord a border; of German origin; compare Middle High German borte border, trimming, German borte trimming, ribbon; akin to English board in sense 8. See Board, n., and compare 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.
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.
Collocations (3)
Border land , land on the frontiers of two adjoining countries; debatable land; -- often used figuratively; as, the border land of science.
The Border or The Borders , specifically, the frontier districts of Scotland and England which lie adjacent.
Over the border , across the boundary line or frontier.
Border ({not transcribed}) , intransitive verb
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.
Border , transitive verb
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. [Obsolete]
That nature, which contemns its origin,
Can not be bordered certain in itself.