ppl. a. [f. ABUT + -ING2.] Projecting towards; terminating upon or against; coming into contact, touching.

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1599.  Shaks., Hen. V., I. Prol. 21. Whose high, vp-reared, and abutting Fronts, The perillous narrow Ocean parts asunder.

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1674.  N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 88. Those bodies or beings that cannot have a placely respect, cannot have an abutting or touching respect.

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1848.  Lytton, Harold, iv. 313. She crept … into the shade of abutting walls.

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