BORDER

In Gardening, a marginal space, always connected with a walk or some other object, to which it forms an accompaniment. Border, or Bordure. In Heraldry, according to French heralds, an honourable ordinary, which should occupy a third part of the shield. In English blazonry, it has generally been considered as a mark of difference to distinguish one branch of a family from another. It surrounds the field, is of equal breadth in every part, and occupies one fifth of the field. When there is a chief on the coat, the bordure is supposed to run under the chief; but it pa es over other ordinaries, as a fe , . [s. 168]