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A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm. A few small crofts of stone-encumbered ground. Wordsworth.

lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use. [Written also demain.] Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill. Ancient demesne. (Eng. Law) See under Ancient.

y. -- Catabiotic force Etym: [Gr. (Biol.), the influence exerted by living structures on adjoining cells, by which the latter are developed in harmony with the primary structures. -- Centrifugal force, Centripetal force, Coercive force, etc. See under Centrifugal, Centripetal, etc. -- Composition of forces, Correlat…

part of an elliptical or many-centered arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.

Not contiguous; not adjoining or in contact; separate. Boyle. -- In`con*tig"u*ous*ly, adv.

The yard adjoining an inn.

To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc.

Adjoining. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ometimes so that they fold up out of sight and allow the kitchen to be made a part of the adjoining room by opening folding doors.

A dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household. Cowell. Bouvier. They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds, To lands in Kent, and messuages in York. Tennyson.

Near to another; adjoining; adjacent; next; neighboring. "The neighbor cities." Jer. l. 40. "The neighbor room." Shak.

A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood.

Adjoining in a series; immediately preceding or following in order. None could tell whose turn should be the next. Gay.

A small inclosure for pasture; esp., one adjoining a stable. Evelyn. Cowper.

An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.

One of two apartments adjoining the stage, probably used as robing rooms.

Land adjoining a road or highway; the part of a road or highway that borders the traveled part. Also used ajectively.

The name is also popularly applied to various painful affections of the hip and the parts adjoininhg. See Ischiadic passion, under Ischiadic.

Of or pertaining to Scythia (a name given to the northern part of Asia, and Europe adjoining to Asia), or its language or inhabitants. Scythian lamb. (Bot.) See Barometz.

A depression between adjoining lobes.