 2 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Border \Bor"der\, verb (used without an object) [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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "bordering":
adjacent, adjoining, beading, binding, borderline, bordure,
boundary, bounding, coastal, connecting, conterminous, contiguous,
coterminous, determinant, determinative, determining, edging,
end to end, endways, endwise, extreme, face to face, fimbria,
fimbriation, flounce, frill, frilling, fringe, fringing, frontier,
furbelow, galloon, hem, immediate, joined, juxtaposed,
juxtapositional, juxtapositive, limbic, liminal, limit, limiting,
list, littoral, marginal, motif, neighbor, neighboring, next,
rimming, ruffle, selvage, skirting, terminal, threshold, trimming,
valance, welt
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