2. To approach; to come near to; to verge.

Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly.

Abp. Tillotson.

Bor"der, v. t. 1. To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.

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.

The country is bordered by a broad tract called the "hot region."

Prescott.

Shebah and Raamah . . . border the sea called the Persian gulf.

Sir W. Raleigh.

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