border, adjoin, edge, abut, march, butt, butt against, butt on
(verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; “Canada adjoins the U.S.”; “England marches with Scotland”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
abut (third-person singular simple present abuts, present participle abutting, simple past and past participle abutted)
(intransitive) To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land) [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
(transitive) To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
Followed by any of the following words: upon, on or (obsolete) to.
abut (third-person singular simple present abuts, present participle abutting, simple past and past participle abutted)
(intransitive) To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
Followed by any of the following words: upon, on, or against.
• Batu, Taub, Tuba, batu, buat, buta, tabu, tuba
Source: Wiktionary
A*but", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Abutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Abutting.] Etym: [OF. abouter, aboter; cf. F. aboutir, and also abuter; a (L. ad) + OF. boter, buter, to push: cf. F. bout end, and but end, purpose.]
Definition: To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet;
– with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 May 2025
(adjective) characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; “a critical reading”; “a critical dissertation”; “a critical analysis of Melville’s writings”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.