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Not having a distinctive margin or border. Grey.

Resembling a series of dovetails; -- said of a line of division, such as the border of an ordinary.

A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc.

Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating. Milton. Shak.

A suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, in which the gills are between the foot and the mantle.

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

Having a border or outline composed of semicircles with the convexity outward; -- the opposite of engrailed.

One of the scales which border the mouth of a fish or reptile.

e of the narrow, jagged, irregular pieces or divisions which form a sort of fringe on the borders of the petals of some flowers.

Fringed; having a fringed border.

An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth. Chaucer. If he cuts off but a lap of truth's garment, his heart smites him. Fuller.

The border or edge at the side of a sail. [Written also leach.] Leech line, a line attached to the leech ropes of sails, passing up through blocks on the yards, to haul the leeches by. Totten. -- Leech rope, that part of the boltrope to which the side of a sail is sewed.

A suborder of primates, including the lemurs, the aye-aye, and allied species. [Written also Lemuroida.]

A suborder of copepod Crustacea, including a large number of remarkable forms, mostly parasitic on fishes. The young, however, are active and swim freely. See Illustration in Appendix.

ace of the moon in its elliptic orbit, causes small portions near the eastern and western borders alternately to appear and disappear each month.

which are very slender and relatively thick- walled, and occasionally are furnished with bordered pits. Goodale.

Bearing only ligulate flowers; -- said of a large suborder of composite plants, such as the dandelion, hawkweed, etc.

A border or edge, in certain special uses.

Bordered, as when one color is surrounded by an edging of another.

A border or margin; as, the limbus of the cornea. Etym: Jamaican E limba to bend, fr. E. limber (1950)]. Often performed at celebrations, such as weddings. (1950-1996)