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Of periods of time or occurrences, and the like. The side chambers were . . . thirty in order. Ezek. xli. 6. Bright-harnessed angels sit in order serviceable. Milton. Good order is the foundation of all good things. Burke.

Capable of being ordered; tractable. [R.] Being very orderable in all his sickness. Fuller.

One who puts in order, arranges, methodizes, or regulates.

Disposition; distribution; management. South.

Being without order or regularity; disorderly; out of rule.

The state or quality of being orderly.

Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton.

One who accords, assents, or concedes. [R.]

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.

Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.

Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment.

The state of being disorderly.

Not in order; marked by disorder; disarranged; immethodical; as, the books and papers are in a disorderly state.

To furnish or adorn with a border; to imborder.

To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.

To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. [Obs.] Shak.

Irregular; disorderly. [Obs.]

To order to arrange beforehand; to foreordain. Sir W. Hamilton.