the outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.-a boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.-a strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.-a narrow flower bed.-to touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; -- with on or upon as, connecticut borders on massachusetts.-to approach; to come near to; to verge.-to make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.-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.-to confine within bounds; to limit.