Word Meanings - IMBORDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
Related words: (words related to IMBORDER)
- FURNISHMENT
The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel. - INCLOSER
One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds. - INCLOSE
Etym: 1. To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls. How many evils have inclosed me round! Milton. 2. To put within a case, - FURNISH
Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and - 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to - BORDEREAU
A note or memorandum, esp. one containing an enumeration of documents. - FURNISHER
One who supplies or fits out. - BORDER
bord a border; of German origin; cf. MHG. borte border, trimming, G. borte trimming, ribbon; akin to E. board in sense 8. See Board, n., 1. The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink. Upon the borders - MILTONIAN
Miltonic. Lowell. - MILTONIC
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose. - BORDERER
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. - IMBORDER
To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton. - DISFURNISH
To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger. - SEA-BORDERING
Bordering on the sea; situated beside the sea. Drayton. - HAMILTON PERIOD
A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology. - REFURNISHMENT
The act of refurnishing, or state of being refurnished. The refurnishment was in a style richer than before. L. Wallace. - UNFURNISH
To strip of furniture; to divest; to strip. - SUBORDER
A division of an order; a group of genera of a little lower rank than an order and of greater importance than a tribe or family; as, cichoraceous plants form a suborder of Compositæ. - UNDERFURNISH
To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently. Collier. - DISINCLOSE
To free from being inclosed. - REFURNISH
To furnish again.