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n. an order that bans something. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. bordure, F. bordure, fr. border to border, fr. bord a border; of German origin; cf. MHG. borte border, trimming, G. borte trimming, ribbon; akin to E. board in sense 8. See Board, n., and cf. Bordure. ] 1. The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink. [ 1913 Webster ]

Upon the borders of these solitudes. Bentham. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the borders of death. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A narrow flower bed. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Edge; verge; brink; margin; brim; rim; boundary; confine. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To approach; to come near to; to verge. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly. Abp. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region borders a forest, or is bordered on the north by a forest. [ 1913 Webster ]

The country is bordered by a broad tract called the “hot region.” Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shebah and Raamah . . . border the sea called the Persian gulf. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To confine within bounds; to limit. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That nature, which contemns its origin,
Can not be bordered certain in itself. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Bordereaux /plu>. [ F. ] A note or memorandum, esp. one containing an enumeration of documents. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. having a border especially of a specified kind; sometimes used as a combining term; as, black-bordered handkerchief. Antonym of unbordered. [ Narrower terms: boxed; deckled, deckle-edged, featheredged; lined; seagirt, sea-girt ] Also See: finite. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region. [ 1913 Webster ]

Borderers of the Caspian. Dyer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. dis- + order: cf. F. désordre. ] 1. Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Neglect of order or system; irregularity. [ 1913 Webster ]

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part,
And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Breach of public order; disturbance of the peace of society; tumult. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Disturbance of the functions of the animal economy or of the soul; sickness; derangement. “Disorder in the body.” Locke.

Syn. -- Irregularity; disarrangement; confusion; tumult; bustle; disturbance; disease; illness; indisposition; sickness; ailment; malady; distemper. See Disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disordered p. pr. & vb. n. Disordering. ] 1. To disturb the order of; to derange or disarrange; to throw into confusion; to confuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

Disordering the whole frame or jurisprudence. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

The burden . . . disordered the aids and auxiliary rafters into a common ruin. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To disturb or interrupt the regular and natural functions of (either body or mind); to produce sickness or indisposition in; to discompose; to derange; as, to disorder the head or stomach. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man whose judgment was so much disordered by party spirit. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To depose from holy orders. [ Obs. ] Dryden.

Syn. -- To disarrange; derange; confuse; discompose. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Disorderly. [ Obs. ] Shak.

-- Dis*or"dered*ly, adv. -- Dis*or"dered*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being disorderly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not in order; marked by disorder; disarranged; immethodical; as, the books and papers are in a disorderly state. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not acting in an orderly way, as the functions of the body or mind. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not complying with the restraints of order and law; tumultuous; unruly; lawless; turbulent; as, disorderly people; disorderly assemblies. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house.

Syn. -- Irregular; immethodical; confused; tumultuous; inordinate; intemperate; unruly; lawless; vicious. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a disorderly manner; without law or order; irregularly; confusedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly. 2 Thess. iii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

Savages fighting disorderly with stones. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. em- (L. in) + border: cf. OF. emborder. ] To furnish or adorn with a border; to imborder. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. decaying at an exponential rate; -- a mathematical concept applied to various types of decay, such as radioactivity and chemical reactions. In first order decay, the amount of material decaying in a given period of time is directly proportional to the amount of material remaining. This may be expressed by the differential equation: dA/dt = -kt where dA/dt is the rate per unit time at which the quantity (or concentration) of material (expressed as A) is increasing, t is the time, and k is a constant. The minus sign in front of the "kt" assures that the amount of material remaining will be decreasing as time progresses. A solution of the differential equation to give the quantity A shows that: A = e-kt where e is the base for natural logarithms. Thus this type of decay is called exponential decay. In certain chemical reactions that are in fact second-order, involving two reactants, the conditions may be chosen in some cases so that one reactant is vastly in excess of the other, and its concentration changes very little in the course of the reaction, so that the reaction rate will be approximately first order in the more dilute reactant; such reactions are called pseudo first order. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Imbordered p. pr. & vb. n. Imbordering. ] [ Pref. im- in + border. Cf. Emborder. ] To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. made specially for a specific purpose; -- of articles of manufacture. Contrasted with mass-produced, standard.
Syn. -- custom-made. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. made or tailored to fit a specific person; -- of clothing. Contrasted with off-the-rack, ready-to-wear.
Syn. -- custom-made, custom-tailored. [ PJC ]

n. A device for making records (of sound, data, etc.) on magnetic media such as magnetic tape or wire. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The buying and selling of goods to be shipped from the vendor through the mail to the purchaser. Information about to be purchased may be found in catalogs, advertisements, on the web, etc., and purchase orders transmitted to the vendor by mail, telephone, or internet connection. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. (Med.), An affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently.
Syn. -- mania. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Irregularity; disorder. [ Obs. ] Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Irregular; disorderly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. ordre, F. ordre, fr. L. ordo, ordinis. Cf. Ordain, Ordinal. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system; as: (a) Of material things, like the books in a library. (b) Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource. (c) Of periods of time or occurrences, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The side chambers were . . . thirty in order. Ezek. xli. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bright-harnessed angels sit in order serviceable. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Good order is the foundation of all good things. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Right arrangement; a normal, correct, or fit condition; as, the house is in order; the machinery is out of order. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The customary mode of procedure; established system, as in the conduct of debates or the transaction of business; usage; custom; fashion. Dantiel. [ 1913 Webster ]

And, pregnant with his grander thought,
Brought the old order into doubt. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet; as, to preserve order in a community or an assembly. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the senate. [ 1913 Webster ]

The church hath authority to establish that for an order at one time which at another time it may abolish. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A command; a mandate; a precept; a direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

Upon this new fright, an order was made by both houses for disarming all the papists in England. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Hence: A commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods; a direction, in writing, to pay money, to furnish supplies, to admit to a building, a place of entertainment, or the like; as, orders for blankets are large. [ 1913 Webster ]

In those days were pit orders -- beshrew the uncomfortable manager who abolished them. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a group or division of men in the same social or other position; also, a distinct character, kind, or sort; as, the higher or lower orders of society; talent of a high order. [ 1913 Webster ]

They are in equal order to their several ends. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Various orders various ensigns bear. Granville. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation; esp., a body of religious persons or aggregate of convents living under a common rule; as, the Order of the Bath; the Franciscan order. [ 1913 Webster ]

Find a barefoot brother out,
One of our order, to associate me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The venerable order of the Knights Templars. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; -- often used in the plural; as, to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. (Arch.) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The Greeks used three different orders, easy to distinguish, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. The Romans added the Tuscan, and changed the Doric so that it is hardly recognizable, and also used a modified Corinthian called Composite. The Renaissance writers on architecture recognized five orders as orthodox or classical, -- Doric (the Roman sort), Ionic, Tuscan, Corinthian, and Composite. See Illust. of Capital. [ 1913 Webster ]

12. (Nat. Hist.) An assemblage of genera having certain important characters in common; as, the Carnivora and Insectivora are orders of Mammalia. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The Linnaean artificial orders of plants rested mainly on identity in the numer of pistils, or agreement in some one character. Natural orders are groups of genera agreeing in the fundamental plan of their flowers and fruit. A natural order is usually (in botany) equivalent to a family, and may include several tribes. [ 1913 Webster ]

13. (Rhet.) The placing of words and members in a sentence in such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty or clearness of expression. [ 1913 Webster ]

14. (Math.) Rank; degree; thus, the order of a curve or surface is the same as the degree of its equation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Artificial order or
Artificial system. See Artificial classification, under Artificial, and Note to def. 12 above. --
Close order (Mil.), the arrangement of the ranks with a distance of about half a pace between them; with a distance of about three yards the ranks are in open order. --
The four Orders,
The Orders four, the four orders of mendicant friars. See Friar. Chaucer. --
General orders (Mil.), orders issued which concern the whole command, or the troops generally, in distinction from special orders. --
Holy orders. (a) (Eccl.) The different grades of the Christian ministry; ordination to the ministry. See def. 10 above. (b) (R. C. Ch.) A sacrament for the purpose of conferring a special grace on those ordained. --
In order to, for the purpose of; to the end; as means to.

The best knowledge is that which is of greatest use in order to our eternal happiness. Tillotson.

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Minor orders (R. C. Ch.), orders beneath the diaconate in sacramental dignity, as acolyte, exorcist, reader, doorkeeper. --
Money order. See under Money. --
Natural order. (Bot.) See def. 12, Note. --
Order book. (a) A merchant's book in which orders are entered. (b) (Mil.) A book kept at headquarters, in which all orders are recorded for the information of officers and men. (c) A book in the House of Commons in which proposed orders must be entered. [ Eng. ] --
Order in Council, a royal order issued with and by the advice of the Privy Council. [ Great Britain ] --
Order of battle (Mil.), the particular disposition given to the troops of an army on the field of battle. --
Order of the day, in legislative bodies, the special business appointed for a specified day. --
Order of a differential equation (Math.), the greatest index of differentiation in the equation. --
Sailing orders (Naut.), the final instructions given to the commander of a ship of war before a cruise. --
Sealed orders, orders sealed, and not to be opened until a certain time, or arrival at a certain place, as after a ship is at sea. --
Standing order. (a) A continuing regulation for the conduct of parliamentary business. (b) (Mil.) An order not subject to change by an officer temporarily in command. --
To give order, to give command or directions. Shak. --
To take order for, to take charge of; to make arrangements concerning. [ 1913 Webster ] Whiles I take order for mine own affairs. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Arrangement; management. See Direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Ordered p. pr. & vb. n. Ordering. ] [ From Order, n. ] 1. To put in order; to reduce to a methodical arrangement; to arrange in a series, or with reference to an end. Hence, to regulate; to dispose; to direct; to rule. [ 1913 Webster ]

To him that ordereth his conversation aright. Ps. 1. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]

Warriors old with ordered spear and shield. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give an order to; to command; as, to order troops to advance. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To give an order for; to secure by an order; as, to order a carriage; to order groceries. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Eccl.) To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry. [ 1913 Webster ]

These ordered folk be especially titled to God. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Persons presented to be ordered deacons. Bk. of Com. Prayer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Order arms (Mil.), the command at which a rifle is brought to a position with its butt resting on the ground; also, the position taken at such a command. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To give orders; to issue commands. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being ordered; tractable. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Being very orderable in all his sickness. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. having or evincing a systematic arrangement; especially, having elements succeeding in order according to rule; as, an ordered sequence; an ordered pair. Opposite of disordered or unordered. [ Narrower terms: abecedarian, alphabetical; consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial, successive ] [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. arranged in order.
Syn. -- orderly, regulated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. in good order.
Syn. -- so(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. disposed or placed in a particular kind of order. OPposite of disarranged.
Syn. -- arranged. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

5. arranged according to a quantitative criterion.
Syn. -- graded, ranked. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

6. marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts.
Syn. -- consistent, logical, orderly. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who puts in order, arranges, methodizes, or regulates. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who gives orders. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Disposition; distribution; management. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being without order or regularity; disorderly; out of rule. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being orderly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Performed in good or established order; well-regulated. “An orderly . . . march.” Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders. “Aids-de-camp and orderly men.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Orderly book (Mil.), a book for every company, in which the general and regimental orders are recorded. --
Orderly officer, the officer of the day, or that officer of a corps or regiment whose turn it is to supervise for the day the arrangements for food, cleanliness, etc. Farrow. --
Orderly room. (a) The court of the commanding officer, where charges against the men of the regiment are tried. (b) The office of the commanding officer, usually in the barracks, whence orders emanate. Farrow. --
Orderly sergeant, the first sergeant of a company. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. According to due order; regularly; methodically; duly. [ 1913 Webster ]

You are blunt; go to it orderly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Orderlies 1. (Mil.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier who attends a superior officer to carry his orders, or to render other service. [ 1913 Webster ]

Orderlies were appointed to watch the palace. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A street sweeper. [ Eng. ] Mayhew. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To order to arrange beforehand; to foreordain. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor's Court, and one of the commissioners of the Central Criminal Court. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mus.) A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet. [ Obs. ] “Flutes and soft recorders.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a recorder. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To order a second time. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bordering on the sea; situated beside the sea. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A form of mild depression that occurs in winters, associated with reduction in the amount of sunlight. It is characterized by oversleeping, irritability, and sometimes overeating. It can be treated by light therapy and usually disappears with the arrival of spring. [ PJC ]

. (Finance) An order in a financial market that aims to limit losses by fixing a figure at which purchases shall be sold or sales bought in, as where stock is bought at 100 and the broker is directed to sell if the market price drops to 98. For a simple stop order, when the specified price has been reached by a traded security, the order becomes a market order to buy or sell at the market price. Thus in the given example, the stock bought at 100 might in fact be sold at 97 if the market is dropping rapidly. A stop-limit order is allowed by some exchanges and traders, in which case, when the specified price has been reached by a traded security, the order becomes a limit order to buy or sell, with the possibility that the ordered transaction may not take place. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. (Nat. Hist.) A division of an order; a group of genera of a little lower rank than an order and of greater importance than a tribe or family; as, cichoraceous plants form a suborder of Compositae. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A group intermediate in importance between an order and a subclass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who uses, or fights with, a sword; a swordsman; a soldier; a cutthroat. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an electroinic device for recording and playing back sounds on magnetic tape; it often has an integrated microphone, amplifier, and speaker, and in such cases requires no additional equipment other than the magnetic tape for recording or playback. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + order. ] To countermand an order for. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Disorderly. [ Obs. ] Bp. Sanderson. [ 1913 Webster ]