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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.

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.

bone on the anterior side of the auditory capsule of many fishes, and connected with, or adjoining, the sphenoid bone.

e or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or reënforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, §275…

ocese or his representative presides. Among Presbyterians, a synod is composed of several adjoining presbyteries. The members are the ministers and a ruling elder from each parish.

Replaced, or cut off, by a plane, especially when equally inclined to the adjoining faces; as, a truncated edge.

f an edge or solid angle by a plane, especially when the plane is equally inclined to the adjoining faces.

pe and southwest of Asia. Turkey carpet, a superior kind of carpet made in Asia Minor and adjoining countries, having a deep pile and composed of pure wool with a weft of different material. It is distinguishable by its coloring and patterns from similar carpets made in India and elsewhere. -- Turkey oak. (Bot.) See C…

here are up, And put the Englishmen unto the sword. Shak. His name was up through all the adjoining provinces, even to Italy and Rome; many desiring to see who he was that could withstand so many years the Roman puissance. Milton. Thou hast fired me; my soul's up in arms. Dryden. Grief and passion are like floods raise…

An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia. The house was of adobe, low, with a wide veranda on the three sides of the inner court. Mrs. H. H. Jackson.