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With slightly overlapping borders; -- said of a suture.

That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country; the limits of human knowledge or endeavor. As eager of the chase, the maid Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed. Pope.

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

To illumine, as books or parchments, with ornamental figures, letters, or borders.

A strip forming the woven border or selvedge of cloth, particularly of broadcloth, and serving to strengthen it; hence, a strip of cloth; a fillet. " Gartered with a red and blue list. "

A suborder of edentates, covered with bony plates, including the armadillos.

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…

The lord or officer who defended the marches or borders of a territory.

Border; margin; edge; verge. [Poetic] Tennyson. Along the river's stony marge. Wordsworth.

A margin; border; brink; edge. [Obs.] The beached margent of the sea. Shak.

A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.

Bordered with a distinct line of color.

Originally, a lord or keeper of the borders or marches in Germany.

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.

An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a daguerreotype. Mat grass. (Bot.) (a) A low, tufted, European grass (Nardus stricta). (b) Same as Matweed. -- Mat rush (Bot.), a kind of rush (Scirpus lacustris) used in England for making m…

An ornamental border. See 3d Mat, 4.

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

To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin.

A size of type between nonpareil and minion; -- used in ornamental borders, etc.

tinct species of wingless birds belonging to Dinornis, and other related genera, of the suborder Dinornithes, found in New Zealand. They are allied to the apteryx and the ostrich. They were probably exterminated by the natives before New Zealand was discovered by Europeans. Some species were much larger than the ostric…