[f. BORDER v.]
1. a. The state of being on the border of, or close to, anything. b. The action of making a border to; an edging; = BORDER.
1530. Palsgr., 200/1. Bordering of a garment, brodevre.
1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Abordement, an arriuing or bordering.
1851. Ruskin, Stones Ven., I. xxi. § 27. The figurings and chasings and borderings of a dress.
1862. M. Hopkins, Hawaii, 71. A kerb or bordering of stones.
2. attrib. and in comb., as bordering-wax, a composition used to form a border to keep in the acid employed to bite into a plate for engraving.
1878. Sala, in Gentl. Mag., May, 561. Bordering wax is softened in warm water until it is thoroughly ductile.
