the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Border
King James Dictionary
or BORD'ER, n. The outer edge of any thing the extreme part or surrounding line the confine or exterior limit of a country, or of any region or tract of land the exterior part or edge of a garment, or of the corol of plants the rim or brim of a vessel, but not often applied to vessels the exterior part of a garden, and hence a bank raised at the side of a garden, for the cultivation of flowers, and a row of plants in short, the outer part or edge of things too numerous to be specified.
BORD'ER, To confine to touch at the edge, side or end to be contiguous or adjacent with on or upon as, Connecticut on the north borders on or upon Massachusetts.
1. To approach near to.
Wit, which borders upon profaneness, deserves to be branded as folly.
BORD'ER, To make a border to adorn with a border of ornaments as, to border a garment or a garden.
1. To reach to to touch at the edge or end to confine upon to be contiguous to.
Sheba and Raamah border the Persian gulf.
2. To confine within bounds to limit. Not used.
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Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Border'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/b/border.html.
