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toward the point where the sun rises when in the equinoctial; as, the east gate; the east border; the east side; the east wind is a wind that blows from the east.

The edges or lower borders of the roof of a building, which overhang the walls, and cast off the water that falls on the roof.

Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice. Upon the edge of yonder coppice. Shak. In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge Of battle. Milton. Pursue even to the very edge of destruction. Sir W. Scott.

That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden. Dryden.

Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.

To incase or inclose in a border or rim; to surround with an ornamental casing, as a gem with gold; to encircle; to inclose; to adorn. Enchased with a wanton ivy twine. Spenser. An precious stones, in studs of gold enchased, The shaggy velvet of his buskins graced. Mickle.

To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines. Parnell.

The inversion or turning in of the border of the eyelids.

At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.

rtains the taste or caprice without much use or value. London pride is a pretty fancy for borders. Mortimer.

To go; to pass; to journey; to travel. So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden. Milton.

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

which in the Southern United States destroys figs. The elytra are velvety green with pale borders.

A border of broad or narrow lines of color or gilt.

A fringe, or fringed border.

Having the edge or extremity bordered by filiform processes thicker than hairs; fringed; as, the fimbriate petals of the pink; the fimbriate end of the Fallopian tube.

Having a fringed border; fimbriate.

To stand at the flank or side of; to border upon. Stately colonnades are flanked with trees. Pitt.

A border worked with flowers. Wright.

Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc. W. Savage.