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

A division into principal and subordinate classes, heads, or departments; also, one of the subordinate parts; as, the ramifications a subject or scheme.

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

To be disobedient to authority; to assume a hostile or insubordinate attitude; to revolt. Hoe could my hand rebel against my heart How could you heart rebel against your reason Dryden.

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.

l had they enough and rent." Chaucer. [Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent In wine and bordel he dispent. Gower. So bought an annual rent or two, And liv'd, just as you see I do. Pope.

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.

rnor or mayor, large powers of appointment and removal of heads of departments or other subordinate officials. [Polit. Cant, U. S.]

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.