BORDER

Definitions

1. 1. The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink. Upon the borders of these solitudes. Bentham. In the borders of death. Barrow.
2. 2. A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
3. 3. A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.
4. 4. A narrow flower bed. Border land, land on the frontiers of two adjoining countries; debatable land; -- often used figuratively; as, the border land of science. -- The Border, The Borders, specifically, the frontier districts of Scotland and England which lie adjacent. -- Over the border, across the boundary line or frontier.