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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  bordered 
  adj  :  having  a  border  especially  of  a  specified  kind  sometimes 
  used  as  a  combining  term;  "black-bordered  handkerchief" 
  [ant:  {unbordered}] 




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