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To make a raid upon or into; as, two regiments raided the border counties.

A border; edge; margin. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

iceus) of the family Icteridæ. The male is black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered with orange, on each wing. Called also redwinged blackbird, red-winged troupial, marsh blackbird, and swamp blackbird.

A suborder of Turbellaria including those that have a simple cylindrical, or saclike, stomach, without an intestine.

A suborder of struthious birds including the rheas.

A suborder of Medusæ which includes very large species without marginal tentacles, but having large mouth lobes closely united at the edges. See Illust. in Appendix.

A suborder of leeches including those that have a protractile proboscis, without jaws. Clepsine is the type.

The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin.

Land adjoining a road or highway; the part of a road or highway that borders the traveled part. Also used ajectively.

A form of croquet modified for greater accuracy of play. The court has a wood border often faced with rubber, used as a cushion in bank shots. The balls are 3¼ in. in diameter, the cage (center arches or wickets) 3 3/8 in. wide, the other arches 3½ in. wide.

a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one.

An extinct order or suborder of bivalve mollusks characteristic of the Cretaceous period; -- called also Rudista. See Illust. under Hippurite.

n in washing. In the middle of a rainbow the colors are . . . distinguished, but near the borders they run into one another. I. Watts.

Of or pertaining to the Saccata, a suborder of ctenophores having two pouches into which the long tentacles can be retracted.

A suborder of Urodela, comprising salamanders.

Tubular, with a speading border. See Hypocraterimorphous.

A pattern; a specimen; especially, a collection of needlework patterns, as letters, borders, etc., to be used as samples, or to display the skill of the worker. Susie dear, bring your sampler and Mrs. Schumann will show you how to make that W you bothered over. E. E. Hale.

A suborder of carnivorous and insectivorous marsupials including the dasyures and the opossums.

Native boric acid, found in saline incrustations on the borders of hot springs near Sasso, in the territory of Florence.

One of series of segments of circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell.