the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Border
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
(2):
(v. i.) To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; - with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
(3):
(v. i.) To approach; to come near to; to verge.
(4):
(n.) A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
(5):
(n.) A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.
(6):
(n.) A narrow flower bed.
(7):
(v. t.) To confine within bounds; to limit.
(8):
(v. t.) 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.
(9):
(v. t.) 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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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Border'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/border.html. 1828.
