Border | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Bōr'der, n.

noun

n. [A-S. bord, board, table, border, Fr. bord, It., Sp., & Pg. bordo. See BOARD.] The outer part or edge of any thing, as of a garment, a country, &c.; margin; boundary; confines; verge; brink. “Upon the borders of these solitudes,” Bentham. “In the borders of death,” Barrow.

Synonyms—Edge; verge; brink; margin; brim; rim; boundary.

Bōr'der, v. i.

verbintransitive

[See supra.]

To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent;—with on or upon; as, Connecticut, on the north, borders upon Massachusetts.
To approach; to come near to.

Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly. Tillotson.

Bōr'der, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. BORDERED; p. pr. & vb. n. BORDERING.] [Cf. Fr. border, Sp. bordar, to edge, border. See supra.]

To make a border for; to furnish or adorn with a border of ornaments; as, to border a garment or a garden.
To reach to; to touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous to.

The country is bordered by a broad tract called the “hot region.” Prescott. 3. To confine within bounds; to limit. [Obs.] That nature which condemns its origin Can not be bordered certain in itself. Shak.