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fringe verb. ME.
[from the noun.]
verb trans. Provide, decorate, or encircle with or as with a fringe. Chiefly as fringed ppl adjective. ME.
fringing reef a coral reef forming a ring around an island.
I. Murdoch The open fields..were fringed with ragged lines of elm and hawthorn. W. Golding The velvet cloth on the table was fringed with bobbles.
verb trans. Act as a fringe to; appear as a fringe on. L18.
E. B. Tylor The Esquimaux who fringe the northern coast. G. L. Harding The pink oleander fringes the banks of every stream.
verb intrans. Spread like a fringe away, off, out, over, etc. Now rare. M19.
fringing verbal noun (a) the action of the verb; (b) the formation or appearance of optical fringes; (c) the spreading of electric or magnetic lines of force at the edges of a region, so as to depart from the regular pattern within the region: LME.