To border upon; to be contiguous to; to meet; in strictness, to adjoin to at the end; but this distinction has not always been observed. The word is chiefly used in describing the bounds or situation of land, and in popular language, is contracted into but, as butted and bounded.
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To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.
A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow.
1. The head or end; that which unites one end of a thing to another; chiefly used to denote the solid pier or mound of earth, stone or timber, which is erected on the bank of a river to support the end of a bridge and connect it with the land.
2. That which abuts or borders on another.
1. State of abutting.
2. That on or against which a body abuts or presses
3. The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut.
4. A fixed point or surface from which resistance or reaction is obtained, as the cylinder head of a steam engine, the fulcrum of a lever, etc.
One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.
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