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A board; a table. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Service due from a bordar; bordage.

The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.

A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier. The cottar, the bordar, and the laborer were bound to aid in the work of the home farm. J. R. Green.

Pertaining to Bordeaux in the south of France. -- n.

A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.

A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Of or pertaining to Bordeaux, in France, or to the district around Bordeaux.

A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel. [Obs.] Gower.

art or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink. Upon the borders of these solitudes. Bentham. In the borders of death. Barrow.

A note or memorandum, esp. one containing an enumeration of documents.

One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region. Borderers of the Caspian. Dyer.

Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table. Spelman.

The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house. Bailey. Mozley & W.

A bordar; a tenant in bordage.

An incursion upon the borders of a country; a raid. [Obs.] Spenser.

A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.

A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. I heard the broadsword's deadly clang. Sir W. Scott.

; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency. I knew a wise man that had it for a byword. Bacon.

Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue.