Also 6 boorder, Sc. bordor, -dour. See also BORDURE v. [f. prec. sb.]
1. trans. To put a border or edging to. Also fig.
c. 1400. Maundev., xxvii. 276. His throne … bordured with Gold.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 1666. A tabill … Bourdurt about all with bright Aumbur.
1530. Palsgr., 460/2. I wyll border my kote with blacke velvet.
1731. Swift, Strephon & Chloe, 1755, IV. I. 152. His night-cap border’d round with lace.
a. 1813. A. Wilson, Amer. Blue-Bird, in Amer. Ornith. (1828), II. 318. Your walks border up; sow and plant at your leisure.
2. To form a border or boundary to; to bound.
1570. Billingsley, Euclid, XI. def. xvi. 317. A Pyramis is ternated and bordered with diuers superficieces.
1590. Greene, Orl. Fur. (1599), 21. Those trees that border in those walkes.
c. 1750. Shenstone, Elegies, xv. 63. Those wholesome sweets that border Virtue’s way.
1807. Sir R. Wilson, in Life (1862), II. viii. 333. The fields are bordered by large forests.
1859. Reeve, Brittany, 293. A low granite wall borders the road.
† b. fig. To keep within bounds, confine, limit.
1605. Shaks., Lear, IV. ii. 33. That nature, which contemns its origin, Cannot be border’d certain in itself.
3. To lie on the borders of, lie next, adjoin.
1649. Selden, Laws Eng., I. xxviii. (1739), 45. The most ancient that bordered the Britons.
1830. Lyell, Princ. Geol. (1875), II. III. xli. 420. Lands bordering the Mediterranean.
1837. Lytton, Athens, II. 120. [They] wore the same armour as the Indians whom they bordered.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., iv. (1856), 29. The great counter-current, which … borders the Gulf Stream.
4. intr. To lie on the border, be contiguous on, upon, (with, by, unto, obs.).
1535. Coverdale, Josh. xv. 8. The mount … that borderth on the edge of the valley of Raphaim.
1563. Homilies, II. Rogation Wk., IV. Our neighbours bordering about us.
1604. T. Wright, Passions, III. ii. 82. Euery moderat passion bordureth betwixt two extreames.
1605. Verstegan, Dec. Intell., v. (1628), 152. The Gaules did anciently border all along on the west side of the Germans.
1645. Rutherford, Tryal & Tri. Faith (1845), 62. It is good to border with Christ, & to be near-hand to him.
1786. W. Thomson, Watson’s Philip III. (1839), 311. An island bordering upon Istria.
1841. Elphinstone, Hist. Ind., I. 361. Hill tribes, bordering on cultivated countries.
5. fig. To border on or upon: to approach closely in character, resemble closely, verge on.
a. 1694. Tillotson, Wks., 1728, I. 33. Wit which borders upon profaneness.
1771. Junius Lett., I. 261. A kind of predilection which borders upon loyalty.
1793. Burke, Rem. Policy Allies, Wks. VII. 122. A degree of indigence at times bordering on beggary.
1839. H. L. Anderson, Haileybury Observer, i. 18. Is your master at home? (this borders on the common-place, says my lady’s lady).
† 6. To broider, to braid. (Cf. broder, BROIDER, also BORDER sb. 6.) Obs.
1585. Abp. Sandys, Serm. (1841), 310. The hair … had been coloured, pleated, and bordered.
† 7. trans. To cut up (a pasty). Obs.
1513. Bk. Keruynge, in Babees Bk. (1868), 265. Termes of a Kerver, Border that pasty.
1864. Ainsworth, Tower of Lond., 412. In the old terms of his art, he … bordered the venison pasty, tranched the sturgeon.
