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The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a
garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink. |
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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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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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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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To confine within bounds; to limit. |