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Border, outer part
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fringe
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Word definitions for fringe in dictionaries
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Word definitions in WordNet
v. adorn with a fringe; "The weaver fringed the scarf" decorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe; "fur fringed the hem of the dress"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fringe \Fringe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fringed (fr[i^]njd); p. pr. & vb. n. Fringing .] To adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe. Precipices fringed with grass. -- Bryant. Fringing reef . See Coral reefs , under Coral .
Usage examples of fringe.
As at Talana Hill, regimental formation was largely gone, and men of the Manchesters, Gordons, and Imperial Light Horse surged upwards in one long ragged fringe, Scotchman, Englishman, and British Africander keeping pace in that race of death.
Several swamp buggies and airfoils were rusting on a parking stand just beyond the forest fringe.
Our saddles were in the Akkadian fashion, which is to say scarcely saddles at all, but embroidered blankets with luxuriant silk fringes, a pair of long stirrups dangling on straps.
They even find a way to bring the Albertan ultra-rightists in on it, plus other provincial fringes, so it looks to O.
Strippers and analyzers were busily at work on the fringes of the beam, dissecting out, isolating, and identifying each of the many scraps of extraneous thought accompanying the main beam.
The red ember of Phoenix, otherwise known as Manticore-A II, rested on the horizon, just above the tips of the Old Earth spruces fringing the lawn, and the gleaming gems of at least a dozen orbital platforms moved visibly against the stars.
He told us the usual string of backblock lies, and then wound up by saying that out on the very fringe of settlement he had met an old acquaintance.
One spot of ebony, backlighted with a flickering glow, plainly symbolized the black hole Ixpuztec, and a metallic-looking sphere, fringed with infalling radiance, was standing in for Avalon, the neutron star.
Sometimes she still saw it in her dreams: the white face, almost as tall as she, with its glowing red eyes, backswept fringed ears, and catfish whiskers around the toothy, pointed jaws.
I saw reflected in his eyes, not them, no, nor the bright green fairway fringed in dark pine, nor the city of Baguio misty and lost in the distance, none of these, but the long delicate snout of that mythic Lincoln.
Interposes between this riparian woodland and the river is often a fringe of the evergreen, shrubby composite called batamote or seepwillow.
His path kept him on the fringe of the lighted areas, and well clear of the bays where crews were working.
Even the scrappy little area out front had been sodded and fringed with daffodils for spring, with pulmonaria and bergenia to bloom later, and astilbe waiting in the wings for midsummer.
But the first person who came to her, when she was working around the birds, picking up little tags and fringes of the sight-awareness she had known yesterday when she flew them, was Jandria.
Everything-the soft, interwoven masses of bladderweed and the transparent, hydrogen-filled bladders that swelled at their fringes, the knotty mats of black grass, froths of algae and elaborate nests of ferns-was sopping wet.