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Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out. I have no mind of feasting forth to-night. Shak.

The space included between the boundary lines of two similar parallelograms, the one within the other, with an angle in common; as, the gnomon bcdefg of the parallelograms ac and af. The parallelogram bf is the complement of the parallelogram df.

es out at thy displeasure. Addison. -- To go over. (a) To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to change sides. I must not go over Jordan. Deut. iv. 22. Let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan. Deut. iii. 25. Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the Ammonites. Jer. xli. 10.…

Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other parts of the body sculptured upon it. These figures, thou…

Limited to the land, or to inland routes; within the seashore boundary; not passing on, or over, the sea; as, inland transportation, commerce, navigation, etc.

Inwardly; within the enveloping surface, or the boundary of a thing; within the body; beneath the surface.

A mark to designate the boundary of land; any , mark or fixed object (as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones) by which the limits of a farm, a town, or other portion of territory may be known and preserved.

That which serves to limit; a boundary; border land. [Obs.] Fuller.

The exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; boundary; contour; outline. Eden stretched her line From Auran eastward to the royal towers Of great Seleucia. Milton.

A limit or boundary; a border. The very list, the very utmost bound, Of all our fortunes. Shak.

A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales. Geneva is situated in the marches of several dominions -- France, Savoy, an…

A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals. Letters of marque, Letters of marque and reprisal, a license or extraordinary commission granted by a government to a private person to fit out a privateer or armed ship to cruise at sea and make prize of the…

A boundary. See Mere. [Obs.]

A boundary. See Mere.

A boundary. Bacon.

A stone designating a limit or boundary; a landmark. Bacon.

portion of the mesoderm during the differetiation of the germ layers. It constitutes the boundary of the coelum.

Measure; limit; boundary; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in the phrase metes and bounds.

A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary.

and the front of the head; as, the embryonic nasofrontal process which forms the anterior boundary of the mouth.