Word Meanings - PEARL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fringe or border. -- v. t.

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• FRINGENT
  Encircling like a fringe; bordering. "The fringent air." Emerson.
• FRINGE TREE
  A small oleaceous tree , of the southern United States, having clusters of white flowers with slender petals. It is often cultivated.
• FRINGED
  Furnished with a fringe. Fringed lear , a leaf edged with soft parallel hairs.
• BORDEREAU
  A note or memorandum, esp. one containing an enumeration of documents.
• 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
• 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.
• FRINGELESS
  Having no fringe.
• FRINGE
  One of a number of light or dark bands, produced by the interference of light; a diffraction band; -- called also interference fringe. (more info) 1. An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• INFRINGER
  One who infringes or violates; a violator. Strype.
• UNDERFRINGE
  A lower fringe; a fringe underneath something. Broad-faced, with underfringe of russet beard. Tennyson.
• INFRINGE
  1. To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law or contract. If the first that did the edict infringe, Had answered for his deed. Shak. The peace . . . was infringed by Appius Claudius. Golding. 2. To
• SEA-BORDERING
  Bordering on the sea; situated beside the sea. Drayton.
• BEFRINGE
  To furnish with a fringe; to form a fringe upon; to adorn as with fringe. Fuller.
• REFRINGENCY
  The power possessed by a substance to refract a ray; as, different substances have different refringencies. Nichol.
• 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.
• INFRINGEMENT
  1. The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution. The punishing of this infringement is proper to that jurisdiction against which the contempt is. Clarendon.
• REFRINGENT
  Pertaining to, or possessing, refringency; refractive; refracting; as, a refringent prism of spar. Nichol.
• VORTEX FRINGE
  The region immediately surrounding a disk moving flatwise through air; -- so called because the air has a cyclic motion as in vortex ring.
• EMBORDER
  To furnish or adorn with a border; to imborder.