See Also: border(2)(dictionary)
Border(medicine)
Border(finance)
border(1)(dictionary)
ventral border(medicine)
inferior border(medicine)
vermilion border(medicine)
frontal border(medicine)
free border(medicine)
occipital border(medicine)

border(1) (iou)



border noun. . LME.
[Old French bordeure (mod. bordure) from Proto-Romance, ult. from one of the Germanic bases of BOARD noun: see -ER2.]
I. Mod. border.
A side, an edge, a brink, a margin; a limit, a boundary (lit. & fig.); the part lying along the boundary or outline. LME.
Horace Walpole He affected an impartiality that by turns led him to the borders of insincerity and contradiction.
a. sing. & (now usu.) in pl. A frontier district of a country or territory. LME.
the Border (a) sing. & (freq.) in pl., the boundary and adjoining districts between England and Scotland; (b) the boundary between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, or between the US and Mexico.
b. The frontier line which separates one country from another. M16.
A continuous bed which forms a fringe round a garden area. LME.
MIXED border.
A distinct edging for strength, ornament, or definition round anything. LME.
TRAC border.
Oxford English Dictionary The newspapers appeared with black borders in sign of mourning. L. M. Montgomery It was an old-fashioned oval..surrounded by a border of very fine amethysts. J. Masters Har Singh stitched a border on to one of the plain white saris.
A plait or braid of hair worn round the forehead or temples. E17-M19.
sing. & (usu.) in pl. A strip of cloth masking the top of a theatre stage as seen from the auditorium. E19.
II. Mod. bordure.
Heraldry. A bearing of uniform width around the edge of a shield. LME.
Comb.: Border ballad: celebrating a raid in the Borders; border collie a medium-sized sheepdog of a breed originating near the border between England and Scotland; borderland land or district on or near a border; fig. an intermediate condition, debatable ground; Border Leicester (an animal of) a breed of sheep originating as a cross between the Cheviot and the Leicester; borderline noun & adjective (a) noun a strip of land forming a boundary; a line of demarcation; (b) adjective on the borderline, marginal; border print printed cotton fabric with a design running parallel to the edge; Border terrier (an animal of) a breed of small rough-haired terrier originating in the Cheviot Hills.