BORN'HOLM, an island in the Balt?c sea, belonging to Denmark, and situated about 90 miles e. from Secland, and half-way between the island of RUgcn and the Swedish coast, lat. 54° 59' to 55° 18' n.. long. 14° to 15° 10' east. Area, including three small islands in its vicinity, about 230 sq.m., with a pct. atisave 31,000. 'It is rocky, and traversed from n. to s. by a high mountain-ridge, the slope of which is in great part a waste heath, but elsewhere it is not unfertile, and agriculture and cattle husbandry are successfully prosecuted. Iligh cliffs,. Sand-banks, and breakers make the coast dangerous. The most notable product of the -stand is porcelain clay, with which the porcelain• manufacture of Copenhagen is carried on. The capital of the island is Mime, or Bottum, on the western coast, a place of (1 870) 5505 inhabitants.
(Fr. homer, to bound), a common an very simple implement. used
by gardeners in laying out grounds, to make the citicr level or of perfectly regular slope. It consists of two slips of board, one a')out in. long, and the other about 4 ft., the shorter fastened by the middle to one end of the longer. and at right angles to it.. One borning-piece being placed at one end of .1 Ike drawn in the piece of ground which is being laid out, with the edge of the shorte: slip of board along the line. and the longer slip erect, others of the same size are siniLtrl• placed at the other end and in other parts of the line; and the requisite uniformity of surface is obtained by filling up with earth, or removing it, until on looking alDng their summits it appears that they are all in the same plane. The name is perhaps derived from the application of the Implement to borders or edgings.