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Adjoin  v. i.  
1.
To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin. "When one man's land adjoins to another's." Note: The construction with to, on, or with is obsolete or obsolescent.
2.
To join one's self. (Obs.) "She lightly unto him adjoined side to side."






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"Adjoin" Quotes from Famous Books



... with a more extended course before it enters the Kyle of Sutherland, where it becomes confluent with the Oykel waters. It may so happen, that in these and other localities, a colder stream, drawing its shallow and divided sources from the frozen sides of barren mountains, may adjoin the lake-born river, and ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine—Vol. 54, No. 333, July 1843 • Various

... the "ring-fence match," which happens everywhere. Two estates, or plantations, or farms adjoin, and there is an only son in one, and an only daughter in the other; and the world, and fathers, and mothers, think what a suitable match it would be, and what a grand thing a ring-fence is, and they cook it up in the most fashionable style, and the parties most concerned take no interest ...
— Nature and Human Nature • Thomas Chandler Haliburton

... know what you are saying," very coldly and decidedly from Miss Eliza. "Of course you want to. It is fitting in every way, most fitting. He is the right age, the families have known each other always, and the lands adjoin." ...
— The Heart of Arethusa • Francis Barton Fox

... goils ain't got no more business to lay before the meetin' a movement to adjoin is ...
— New Faces • Myra Kelly

... specially set aside, where many persons could work together, usually under the direction of a librarius or chief scribe. In the more carefully constructed monasteries this apartment was so placed as to adjoin the calefactory, which allowed the introduction of hot ...
— Bibliomania in the Middle Ages • Frederick Somner Merryweather

... school building or community house may be erected and which may include a playground, bandstand, and whatever features are desired, even if it is necessary to place it at the edge of the village. Wherever possible the playground should adjoin the school building or community house, or both. Either as a feature of the playground or adjoining it, there should be a baseball diamond and bleachers or grandstand. Such a civic center will be found to be a powerful factor in the maintenance ...
— The Farmer and His Community • Dwight Sanderson

... a message, which he could easily divine to be an invitation to come to speak to her between the acts. When the curtain fell, Mr Moffatt made an immediate rush for the door, and Guest took possession of his seat, devoutly thankful that it did not happen to adjoin that of the ...
— Flaming June • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... and descend more abruptly, terraces, minarets, domes, and long reed-thatched roofs of the bazaars, all gather around the green-tiled tomb of Moulay Idriss and the tower of the Almohad mosque of El Kairouiyin, which adjoin each other in the depths of Fez, and form ...
— In Morocco • Edith Wharton

... bells, fire-places, and other necessities of civilized life are unknown, the bed-rooms are often reached by an outside staircase only, and afford such accommodation we should not think luxurious for a stable-boy in England, and these often, moreover, adjoin a noisy upper salle-a-manger, where eating, and drinking, and talking go on ...
— Holidays in Eastern France • Matilda Betham-Edwards

... bricks, as in the gate tower. The library had been removed to the Stone Buildings in 1787 from a small room south of the old hall, and, more accommodation being required, Hardwick designed a library to adjoin the new hall. The two looked very well, the hall being of six bays, with a great bow-window at the north end. The interior is embellished with heraldry in stained glass, carved oak, metal work, and fresco painting. At the north end, over the dais, ...
— Holborn and Bloomsbury - The Fascination of London • Sir Walter Besant

... "Next year I am heir to my share of over three hundred acres of land covered with almost as valuable timber as was in the Limberlost. We adjoin it. There could be thirty oil wells drilled that would yield to us the thousands our neighbours are draining from under us, and the bare land is worth over one hundred dollars an acre for farming. She ...
— A Girl Of The Limberlost • Gene Stratton Porter



Words linked to "Adjoin" :   fret, cling, chafe, scratch, rest on, environ, adjunction, neighbor, border, spread over, cover, cleave, fray, surround, edge, lean on, converge, butt against



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