Border

·noun A narrow flower bed.

II. Border ·vt To confine within bounds; to Limit.

III. Border ·vi To Approach; to come near to; to Verge.

IV. Border ·noun A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.

V. Border ·noun The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, ·etc.; margin; verge; brink.

VI. Border ·noun A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.

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

VIII. Border ·vi To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent;

— with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.

IX. Border ·vt 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.