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Boundary

That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit.

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Absoluteness 76% connected

The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.

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Border 76% connected

The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.

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Bourn 76% connected

Alt. of Bourne

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Bourne 76% connected

A stream or rivulet; a burn.

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Brink 76% connected

The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. A…

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Delimitation 76% connected

The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation.

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Demarcation 76% connected

The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit; separation; distinction.

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Edge 76% connected

The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge…

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End 76% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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Fringe 76% connected

An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but mor…

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Frontier 76% connected

That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country,…

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Knife-edge 76% connected

A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or ot…

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Limit 76% connected

That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a…

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Lineation 76% connected

Delineation; a line or lines.

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Margin 76% connected

A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.

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Maximum 76% connected

The greatest quantity or value attainable in a given case; or, the greatest value attained by a quantity which first increases and then begins to dec…

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Mete 76% connected

Meat.

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Outline 76% connected

The line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure; the exterior line or edge; contour.

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Perimeter 76% connected

The outer boundary of a body or figure, or the sum of all the sides.

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Periphery 76% connected

The outside or superficial portions of a body; the surface.

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Rim 76% connected

The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin.

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Starkness 76% connected

The quality or state of being stark.

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Surface 76% connected

The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, t…

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Threshold 76% connected

The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entr…

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Utmost 76% connected

Situated at the farthest point or extremity; farthest out; most distant; extreme; as, the utmost limits of the land; the utmost extent of human knowl…

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Uttermost 76% connected

Extreme; utmost; being; in the farthest, greatest, or highest degree; as, the uttermost extent or end.

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Utterness 76% connected

The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost.

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Verge 76% connected

A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.

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Extent 76% connected

Extended.

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Extremity 76% connected

The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country.

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Line 76% connected

Flax; linen.

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Border 74% connected

The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.

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Border 74% connected

The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.

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Define 74% connected

To fix the bounds of; to bring to a termination; to end.

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Define 74% connected

To fix the bounds of; to bring to a termination; to end.

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Limit 74% connected

That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a…

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Limit 74% connected

That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a…

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Synonym 3

Bound 92% connected

of Bind

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Edge 92% connected

The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge…

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Limit 92% connected

That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a…

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