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   Border , n. [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.]
   The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
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   Upon the borders of these solitudes.
   Bentham.
   
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   In the borders of death.
   Barrow.
   
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   A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
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   A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.
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   A narrow flower bed.
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   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.
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   Syn. -- Edge; verge; brink; margin; brim; rim; boundary; confine.
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   Border, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bordered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bordering.]
   To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
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   To approach; to come near to; to verge.
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   Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly.
   Abp. Tillotson.
   
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   Border, v. t.
   To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.
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   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.
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   The country is bordered by a broad tract called the “hot region.”
   Prescott.
   
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   Shebah and Raamah . . . border the sea called the Persian gulf.
   Sir W. Raleigh.
   
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   To confine within bounds; to limit. [Obs.]
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   That nature, which contemns its origin,
   Can not be bordered certain in itself.
   Shak.
   
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