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A frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead. [R.] The genial bed, Sallow the feet, the borders, and the stead. Dryden.

athing pores of leaves or other organs opening into the intercellular spaces, and usually bordered by two contractile cells.

a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses. He removed [the body of] Amasa from the street unto the field. Coverdale. At home or through the high street passing. Milton.

Situated under the nose; as, the subnasal point, or the middle point of the inferior border of the anterior nasal aperture.

pear on the sun's disk, consisting commonly of a black central portion with a surrounding border of lighter shade, and usually seen only by the telescope, but sometimes by the naked eye. They are very changeable in their figure and dimensions, and vary in size from mere apparent points to spaces of 50,000 miles in diam…

A group intermediate between a family and a suborder.

and handsome butterflies, belonging to Papilio and allied genera, in which the posterior border of each hind wing is prolongated in the form of a long lobe.

A suborder of lophobranch fishes which have an elongated snout and lack the ventral and first dorsal fins. The pipefishes and sea horses are examples. -- Syng"na*thous, a.

A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets.

An order, or suborder, of gastropod Mollusca in which the gills are usually situated on one side of the back, and protected by a fold of the mantle. When there is a shell, it is usually thin and delicate and often rudimentary. The aplysias and the bubble shells are examples.

Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.

A level plain, usually with a steep front, bordering a river, a lake, or sometimes the sea.

(Sphinx, or Phlegethontius, Carolina). It is dark green, with seven oblique white stripes bordered above with dark brown on each side of the body. It feeds upon the leaves of tobacco and tomato plants, and is often very injurious to the tobacco crop. See Illust. of Hawk moth.

ce of woolen cloth of a shape approaching a semicircle. It was of undyed wool, except the border of the toga prætexta. Toga prætexta. Etym: [L.], a toga with a broad purple border, worn by children of both sexes, by magistrates, and by persons engaged in sacred rites. -- Toga virilis Etym: [L.], the manly gown; the co…

y divided or forked finlike organs (parapodia). This genus is the type of the order, or suborder, Gymnocopa.

in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc. [Written also towelling.]

A kind of border similar to the orle, but of only half the breadth of the latter.

A suborder of Neuroptera usually having the wings covered with minute hairs. It comprises the caddice flies, and is considered by some to be a distinct order.

Any hydroid belonging to the suborder Tubularida.

pecifically (Bot.), having a hollow cylindrical corolla, often expanded or toothed at the border; as, a tubulose flower.