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.
3. To confine within bounds; to limit.
That nature, which contemns its origin,
Can not be bordered certain in itself.
Shak.