From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adjoin \Ad*join"\ ([a^]d*join"), verb (used without an object)
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Note: The construction with to, on, or with is obsolete or obsolescent.
She lightly unto him adjoined side to side. --Spenser.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adjoin \Ad*join"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Adjoined}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Adjoining}.] [OE. ajoinen, OF. ajoindre, F. adjoindre, fr. L. adjungere; ad + jungere to join. See {Join}, and cf. {Adjunct}.] 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
verb
1: lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland" [syn: {border}, {edge}, {abut}, {march}, {butt}, {butt against}, {butt on}]
2: be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point" [syn: {touch}, {meet}, {contact}]
3: attach or add; "I adjoin a copy of your my lawyer's letter"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "adjoin": abut, abut on, add, affix, agglutinate, annex, append, appose, attach, be contiguous, be in contact, befringe, bind, border, border on, bound, bring near, burden, butt, communicate, complicate, conjoin, connect, decorate, edge, encumber, end, enframe, frame, fringe, glue on, hem, hitch on, infix, join, join with, juxtapose, juxtaposit, lap, lie by, line, list, march, marge, margin, marginate, meet, neighbor, ornament, paste on, plus, postfix, prefix, purfle, purl, put with, rim, run into, saddle with, set off, side, skirt, slap on, stand by, subjoin, suffix, superadd, superpose, tack on, tag, tag on, touch, trim, unite with, verge, verge upon
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