Bordeaux to Borsholder
Bordeaux
(Bor*deaux") a. Pertaining to Bordeaux in the south of France. — n. A claret wine from
Bordeaux.
Bordel
(Bor"del Bor*del"lo) n. [F. bordel, orig. a little hut, OF. borde hut, cabin, of German origin, and
akin to E. board, n. See Board, n.] A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution. [Obs.]
B. Jonson.
Bordelais
(||Bor`de*lais") a. [F.] Of or pertaining to Bordeaux, in France, or to the district around Bordeaux.
Bordeller
(Bor"del*ler) n. A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel. [Obs.] Gower.
Border
(Bor"der) n. [OE. bordure, F. bordure, fr. border to border, fr. bord a border; of German origin; cf.
MHG. borte border, trimming, G. borte trimming, ribbon; akin to E. board in sense 8. See Board, n.,
and cf. Bordure.]
1. The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
Upon the borders of these solitudes.
Bentham.
In the borders of death.
Barrow.
2. A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
3. A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.
4. A narrow flower bed.
Border land, land on the frontiers of two adjoining countries; debatable land; — often used figuratively; as,
the border land of science. — The Border, The Borders, specifically, the frontier districts of Scotland
and England which lie adjacent. — Over the border, across the boundary line or frontier.
Syn. — Edge; verge; brink; margin; brim; rim; boundary; confine.
Border
(Bor"der), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bordered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bordering.]
1. To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; — with on or upon as, Connecticut
borders on Massachusetts.
2. To approach; to come near to; to verge.
Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly.
Abp. Tillotson.
Border
(Bor"der), v. t.
1. To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.
2. 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.
The country is bordered by a broad tract called the "hot region."
Prescott.
Shebah and Raamah . . . border the sea called the Persian gulf.
Sir W. Raleigh.
3. To confine within bounds; to limit. [Obs.]
That nature, which contemns its origin,
Can not be bordered certain in itself.
Shak.
