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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]:
bordering
adj : having a common boundary or edge; touching; "abutting lots";
"adjoining rooms"; "Rhode Island has two bordering
states; Massachusetts and Conncecticut"; "the side of
Germany conterminous with France"; "Utah and the
contiguous state of Idaho" [syn: {abutting}, {adjacent},
{adjoining}, {bordering(a)}, {conterminous}, {contiguous}]
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