English English Dictionary

To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.

To approach; to come near to; to verge.

To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.

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.

To confine within bounds; to limit.

of Border

One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region.

of Border

Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table.

The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house.

A bordar; a tenant in bordage.

Alt. of Bordraging

An incursion upon the borders of a country; a raid.

A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.

of Bear

A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.

A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.

Caliber; importance.

A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.

The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.