Definition for BORD'ER

BORD'ER, v.i.

  1. To confine; to touch at the edge, side or end; to be contiguous or adjacent; with on or upon; as, Connecticut on the north borders on or upon Massachusetts.
  2. To approach near to. Wit, which borders upon profaneness, deserves to be branded as folly. – Tillotson.

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