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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bor·der n.
 1. The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
    Upon the borders of these solitudes.   --Bentham.
    In the borders of death.   --Barrow.
 2. A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
 3. A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.
 4. A narrow flower bed.
 Border land, land on the frontiers of two adjoining countries; debatable land; -- often used figuratively; as, the border land of science.
 The Border, The Borders, specifically, the frontier districts of Scotland and England which lie adjacent.
 Over the border, across the boundary line or frontier.
 Syn: -- Edge; verge; brink; margin; brim; rim; boundary; confine.