[f. as prec. + -ING2.]
1. That borders upon; adjoining, neighboring, on the border; also fig.
1530. Palsgr., 306/2. Bordring to the seesyde, maritain.
1590. Greene, Orl. Fur. (1599), 35. Daughter I am vnto a bordering Swaine, That tend my flockes within these groues.
1631. Gouge, God’s Arrows, I. § 70, 117. A plague … fell upon Bizantium and the bordering places.
1848. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 42. The bordering states must imitate the example.
2. That borders, forms a border, or encloses.
1677. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., II. iv. 163. The bordering Mountains of China.
1711. Gay, Rural Sports, I. i. 259. The bord’ring reeds O’erlook the muddy stream.
1861. Geo. Eliot, Silas M., 12. A man could cross the bordering heights.
3. Of or pertaining to a border district.
1612. Davies, Why Ireland (1747), 41. They made only a bordering war upon the Irish.
1617. Moryson, Itin., III. III. iv. 155. Sent from the governor of Berwick about bordering affairs.
1724. Ramsay, Ever-Green, Johnie Armstrong, note. Taking much Plunder in the bordering Parts.
