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Lying at length; as, the jacent posture. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. "The adjacent forest." B. Jonson. Adjacent or contiguous angle. (Geom.) See Angle.

So as to be adjacent.

Lying round; borderong on every side. T. Fuller.

Lying or being between or among; intervening; as, interjacent isles. Sir W. Raleigh.

Being in a lower situation, though not directly beneath; as, hills and subjacent valleys.

Situated immediately above; as, superjacent rocks.

It remains unchanged before vowels, and before d, h, j, m, v. Examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. It becomes ac- before qu, as in acquiesce.

The state of being adjacent or contiguous; contiguity; as, the adjacency of lands or buildings.

Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room. "The adjoining fane." Dryden. Upon the hills adjoining to the city. Shak.

ling angle bears. Pope. Acute angle, one less than a right angle, or less than 90º. -- Adjacent or Contiguous angles, such as have one leg common to both angles. -- Alternate angles. See Alternate. -- Angle bar. (a) (Carp.) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of a polygonal or bay window meet. Knight. (b) (M…

A variety of the gazelle (Antilope, or Gazella, dorcas), found in Arabia and adjacent countries. (b) A squirrel-like Australian marsupial, a species of Petaurus. (c) A beautiful Brazilian toucan Ramphastos ariel).

On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat. Here shall I die ashore. Shak. I must fetch his necessaries ashore. Shak.

A small, hooded, poisonous serpent of Egypt and adjacent countries, whose bite is often fatal. It is the Naja haje. The name is also applied to other poisonous serpents, esp. to Vipera aspis of southern Europe. See Haje.

One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather.

or side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.

ces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion…

The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.

A long screw formerly used to fasten a bedpost to one of the adjacent side pieces.

eplacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes.