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Confine :: Confine (v. i.) To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with.

March :: March (v. i.) To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side.

Shire :: Shire (n.) A division of a State, embracing several contiguous townships; a county..

Abut :: Abut (v. i.) To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road..

Cluster :: Cluster (n.) A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands..

Levant :: Levant (n.) The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.

Adjoin :: Adjoin (v. i.) To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin..

Adjoinant :: Adjoinant (a.) Contiguous.

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress..

Stress :: Stress (n.) The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress..

Immediately :: Immediately (adv.) In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous..

Araucaria :: Araucaria (n.) A genus of tall conifers of the pine family. The species are confined mostly to South America and Australia. The wood cells differ from those of other in having the dots in their lateral surfaces in two or three rows, and the dots of contiguous rows alternating. The seeds are edible..

Levity :: Levity (n.) The quality of weighing less than something else of equal bulk; relative lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a contiguous substance; buoyancy; -- opposed to gravity..

Intussusception :: Intussusception (n.) The abnormal reception or slipping of a part of a tube, by inversion and descent, within a contiguous part of it; specifically, the reception or slipping of the upper part of the small intestine into the lower; introsusception; invagination..

Conterminous :: Conterminous (a.) Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous..

Adjoining :: Adjoining (a.) Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room..

Sistering :: Sistering (a.) Contiguous.

Attiguous :: Attiguous (a.) Touching; bordering; contiguous.

Trench :: Trench (v. t.) To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops..

Contiguous :: Contiguous (a.) In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining..

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