Word Meanings - EMBORDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To furnish or adorn with a border; to imborder.
Related words: (words related to EMBORDER)
- FURNISHMENT
The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel. - IMBORDER
To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton. - ADORNINGLY
By adorning; decoratively. - ADORNATION
Adornment. - ADORNMENT
An adorning; an ornament; a decoration. - ADORNER
He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier. - 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 - ADORN
To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive. As a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. Isa. lxi. 10. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place. - 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. - 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. - DISADORN
To deprive of ornaments. Congreve. - REFURNISHMENT
The act of refurnishing, or state of being refurnished. The refurnishment was in a style richer than before. L. Wallace. - READORN
To adorn again or anew. - 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.