See Also: re-(3)(page 1)(dictionary)
un-(3)(page 10)(dictionary)
un-(3)(page 11)(dictionary)
un-(3)(page 12)(dictionary)
un-(3)(page 13)(dictionary)
un-(3)(page 14)(dictionary)
un-(3)(page 15)(dictionary)
un-(3)(page 16)(dictionary)
un-(3)(page 2)(dictionary)
un-(3)(page 3)(dictionary)

border(1) (iou) and PAGE (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.

PAGE (medicine)


page


1. One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript. "Such was the book from whose pages she sang." (Longfellow)

2. A record; a Writing; as, the page of history.

3. The type set up for printing a page.

Origin: F, fr. L. Pagina; prob. Akin to pagere, pangere, to fasten, fix, make, the pages or leaves being fastened together. Cf. Pact, Pageant, Pagination.

1. A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and Education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed for doin errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy emploed to wait upon the members of a legislative body. "He had two pages of honor on either hand one." (Bacon)

2. A boy child.

3. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.

4. A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.

5. <zoology> Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.

Origin: F, fr. It. Paggio, LL. Pagius, fr. Gr, dim. Of, a boy, servant; perh. Akin to L. Puer. Cf. Pedagogue, Puerile.

Source: Websters Dictionary