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A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution. Wilder.

A band of white matter bordering the hippocampus in the brain. -- Fim"bri*al, a.

Encircling like a fringe; bordering. [R.] "The fringent air." Emerson.

or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.

A similar bordering or binding of rich material, such as gold lace. Silver and gold galloons, with the like glittering gewgaws. Addison.

e painful husband, plowing up his ground. Hakewill. He is the neatest husband for curious ordering his domestic and field accommodations. Evelyn.

Simplicity or plainness, bordering on weakness or silliness; artlessness; ingenuousness. Chaucer. Shak.

Bordering on, or situated near, the ocean; connected with the sea by site, interest, or power; having shipping and commerce or a navy; as, maritime states. "A maritime town." Addison.

A person of congenitally abnormal mind bordering on insanity or degeneracy.

embodying the total of all finite agencies and forces as disconnected from a creating or ordering intelligence. I oft admire How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit Such disproportions. Milton.

ne that everything in nature, being the work of God, is ordered for the best, or that the ordering of things in the universe is such as to produce the highest good.

Bordering upon, or being near, the sea; seaside; seacoast; as, a seaboard town.

The land bordering on, or adjacent to, the sea; the seashore. Also used adjectively.

t. Prof. Wilson. Acts of sederunt (Scots Law), ordinances of the Court of Session for the ordering of processes and expediting of justice. Bell.

Half deisticsl; bordering on deism. S. Miller.

zines, in which a certain number of the items are delivered as produced, without need for ordering each item individually; also, the purchase thus executed.

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

use, an institution in London for promoting commerce and navigation, by licensing pilots, ordering and erecting beacons, and the like. -- Trinity Sunday, the Sunday next after Whitsunday; -- so called from the feast held on that day in honor of the Holy Trinity. -- Trinity term. (Law) See the Note under Term, n., 5.…

White widgeon (Zoöl.), the smew. -- White wine. any wine of a clear, transparent color, bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; -- distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and Burgundy. "White wine of Lepe." Chaucer. -- White witch, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers are supposed t…

The character or practices o "He acquired a reputation bordering on wizardry." J. A. Symonds.