bordering

2 definitions found

bordering - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Border \Bor"der\, 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.
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     2. To approach; to come near to; to verge.
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              Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be
              branded as folly.                     --Abp.
                                                    Tillotson.
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bordering - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "bordering":
     adjacent, adjoining, beading, binding, borderline, bordure,
     boundary, bounding, coastal, connecting, conterminous, contiguous,
     coterminous, determinant, determinative, determining, edging,
     end to end, endways, endwise, extreme, face to face, fimbria,
     fimbriation, flounce, frill, frilling, fringe, fringing, frontier,
     furbelow, galloon, hem, immediate, joined, juxtaposed,
     juxtapositional, juxtapositive, limbic, liminal, limit, limiting,
     list, littoral, marginal, motif, neighbor, neighboring, next,
     rimming, ruffle, selvage, skirting, terminal, threshold, trimming,
     valance, welt