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▪ I. bordering, vbl. n.|ˈbɔːdərɪŋ| [f. border v.] 1. a. The state of being on the border of, or close to, anything. b. The action of making a border to; an edging; = border.
1530Palsgr. 200/1 Bordering of a garment, brodevre. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Abordement, an arriuing or bordering. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. I. xxi. §27, The figurings and chasings and borderings of a dress. 1862M. Hopkins Hawaii 71 A kerb or bordering of stones. 2. attrib. and in comb., as bordering-wax, a composition used to form a border to keep in the acid employed to bite into a plate for engraving.
1878Sala in Gentl. Mag. May 561 Bordering-wax is softened in warm water until it is thoroughly ductile. ▪ II. ˈbordering, ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ing2.] 1. That borders upon; adjoining, neighbouring, on the border; also fig.
1530Palsgr. 306/2 Bordring to the seesyde, maritain. 1590Greene Orl. Fur. (1599) 35 Daughter I am vnto a bordering Swaine, That tend my flockes within these groues. 1631Gouge God's Arrows i. §70. 117 A plague..fell upon Bizantium and the bordering places. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 42 The bordering states must imitate the example. 2. That borders, forms a border, or encloses.
1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. iv. 163 The bordering Mountains of China. 1711Gay Rural Sports i. i. 259 The bord'ring reeds O'erlook the muddy stream. 1861Geo. Eliot Silas M. 12 A man could cross the bordering heights. 3. Of or pertaining to a border district.
1612Davies Why Ireland (1747) 41 They made only a bordering war upon the Irish. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. iii. iv. 155 Sent from the governor of Berwick about bordering affairs. 1724Ramsay Ever-Green, Johnie Armstrong note, Taking much Plunder in the bordering Parts. |