ADJOINS

Verb

adjoins

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adjoin

Source: Wiktionary


ADJOIN

Ad*join", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adjoined; p. pr. & vb. n. Adjoining.] Etym: [OE. ajoinen, OF. ajoindre, F. adjoindre, fr. L. adjungere; ad + jungere to join. See Join, and cf. Adjunct.]

Definition: To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append. Corrections . . . should be, as remarks, adjoined by way of note. Watts.

Ad*join", 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. Blackstone.

Note: The construction with to, on, or with is obsolete or obsolescent.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. Spenser.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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