Dictionary entry

Border (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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

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

Abp. Tillotson.