*bord*

v. t. [ F. aborder, à (L. ad) + bord rim, brim, or side of a vessel. See Border, Board. ] To approach; to accost. [ Obs. ] Digby. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Board, n. ] 1. A board; a table. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mining) The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Bourd. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. bordagium. ] The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. bordarius, fr. borda a cottage; of uncertain origin. ] A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cottar, the bordar, and the laborer were bound to aid in the work of the home farm. J. R. Green. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to Bordeaux in the south of France. -- n. A claret wine from Bordeaux. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Hort.) A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖a. [ F. ] Of or pertaining to Bordeaux, in France, or to the district around Bordeaux. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. bordel, orig. a little hut, OF. borde hut, cabin, of German origin, and akin to E. board, n.See. Board, n. ] A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a building where prostitutes are available for hire; a brothel.
Syn. -- whorehouse, whore house, brothel, bagnio, house of prostitution, house of ill repute, bawdyhouse, bawdy house, cathouse, sporting house. [ PJC + 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. [ Bordar (or perh. bord a board) + land. ] (O. Eng. Law) Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table. Spelman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bordar (or perh. bord a board) + lode leading. ] (O. Eng. Law) The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house. Bailey. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bordar (or perh. bord a board) + man. ] A bordar; a tenant in bordage. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Perh. from OE. bord, for border + raging. Cf. Bodrage. ] An incursion upon the borders of a country; a raid. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Bordar (or perh. bord a board) + service. ] (O. Eng. Law) Service due from a bordar; bordage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bordure. See Border, n. ] (Her.) A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

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 ]

a. Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. insubordination. ] The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & a. See Seaboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

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. [ See Subordinate. ] The quality or state of being subordinate, or subject to control; subordination, as, to bring the imagination to act in subordinacy to reason. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Pref. sub + L. ordinans, p. pr. of ordinare. See Subordinate, a. ] Subordinacy; subordination. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Her.) One of several heraldic bearings somewhat less common than an ordinary. See Ordinary. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Different writers name different bearings as subordinaries, but the bar, bend, sinister, pile, inescutcheon bordure, gyron, and quarter, are always considered subordinaries by those who do not class them as ordinaries. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. sub + L. ordinatus, p. p. of ordinare to set in order, to arrange. See Ordain. ] 1. Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position. [ 1913 Webster ]

The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was subordinate, not enslaved, to the understanding. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who stands in order or rank below another; -- distinguished from a principal. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Subordinated p. pr. & vb. n. Subordinating. ] 1. To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Sub*or"di*nate*ly, adv. -- Sub*or"di*nate*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. subordination. ] 1. The act of subordinating, placing in a lower order, or subjecting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quality or state of being subordinate or inferior to an other; inferiority of rank or dignity; subjection. [ 1913 Webster ]

Natural creature having a local subordination. Holyday. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Place of inferior rank. [ 1913 Webster ]

Persons who in their several subordinations would be obliged to follow the example of their superiors. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination; used to introduce a subordinate sentence; as, a subordinative conjunction. [ 1913 Webster ]