emborder

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

em- +‎ border

Verb[edit]

emborder (third-person singular simple present emborders, present participle embordering, simple past and past participle embordered)

  1. (transitive) To furnish or adorn with a border.
    • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. [], London: [] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker []; [a]nd by Robert Boulter []; [a]nd Matthias Walker, [], →OCLC:
      Among thick woven arborets and flours
      Emborder'd on each bank

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for emborder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)