[f. as prec. + -ING2.]
1. That joins; connecting, uniting, etc.
1483. Cath. Angl., 199/2. Iunynge, coniungens.
a. 1631. Donne, Poems (1650), 60. Our hopes joyning blisse.
1885. Leudesdorf, Cremona’s Proj. Geom., 13. Produce the joining line to cut OI in I′.
2. Adjoining, adjacent, contiguous: see JOIN v. 8. Now rare or Obs.
c. 1385. Chaucer, L. G. W., 1962 (Ariadne). The tour … Was Ioynynge in the wal to a foreyne.
1530–77. H. Rhodes, Bk. Nurture, in Babees Bk., 67. Other that syt ioyning by them.
1616. Marlowe’s Faust., 1228. I have a castle joining near these woods.
1747. Mrs. Delany, Life & Corr. (1861), II. 473. A pretty field called the Star-field, joining to my garden.
1858. Hawthorne, Fr. & It. Jrnls. (1872), I. 10. The Tuileries joining to the Louvre.
