Borders-region
noun
a former local government region in S Scotland, formed in 1975 from Berwick, Peebles, Roxburgh, Selkirk, and part of Midlothian; replaced in 1996 by Scottish Borders council area
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Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent [zhyl zhahn ba-teest van-sahn] /ʒül ʒɑ̃ baˈtist vɛ̃ˈsɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1870–1961, Belgian physiologist and bacteriologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1919. Historical Examples The Organism as a Whole Jacques Loeb noun Jules (Jean Baptiste Vincent) (ʒyl). 1870–1961, Belgian bacteriologist and immunologist, who discovered complement. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1919
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- Bordure
the area adjacent to the outer edges of an escutcheon. Historical Examples The Curiosities of Heraldry Mark Antony Lower Notes and Queries, Number 238, May 20, 1854 Various Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 Various French Book-plates Walter Hamilton Notes & Queries 1850.01.26 Various The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell A Complete […]
- Bore
to weary by dullness, tedious repetition, unwelcome attentions, etc.: The long speech bored me. a dull, tiresome, or uncongenial person. a cause of ennui or petty annoyance: repetitious tasks that are a bore to do. to pierce (a solid substance) with some rotary cutting instrument. to make (a hole) by drilling with such an instrument. […]
- Borecole
kale (def 1). Historical Examples The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Fearing Burr Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin Robert Louis Stevenson noun another name for kale1