border (border)

and a. [Early mod. E. also bordure, Sc. bordour; It. bordare = Sp. Pg. Pr. bordar = F. border ), edge, border, It. Sp. bor do = Pg. bord a = F. bord ), edge, side, IMG:content-2337.png:[blocks in formation] In bringing his border into contact with that of the Danelaw, Eadward announced that the time of rest was over, and that a time of action had begun. J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 188. 3. The district or territory which lies along the edge or boundary-line of a country; the frontier; specifically, in the plural, the marches or border districts: hence, in English and Scottish history, "the borders," the districts adjoining the line separating the two countries. These outlaws, as I may call them, who robbed upon the borders. Bp. Patrick, Com. on Genesis, xlvi. 34. 4. Territory; domain. The Lord thy God shall enlarge thy border . Deut. xii. 20. 5. Figuratively, a limit, boundary, or verge; driven by disaster to the border of despair; brink: as, he is on the border of threescore; "in the borders of death, " Barrow, Works, III. xvii.-6. A strip, band, or edging surrounding any general area or plane surface, or placed along its margin, and differing from it by some well-defined character, as in material, color, design, or purpose. (a) A narrow bed or strip of ground in a inclosing a portion of it, and generally divided from it by a path or walk. ( b ) Ornamental etc., the black band around mourning stationery, or the bord1t, n. An obsolete or dialectal form of work surrounding a printed page, a handbill, a drawing, board . bord2t, n. Same as bourd1.