coexist; adhere &c. 46.
     [transitive][cause to be contiguous] juxtapose; contact; join (unite)
43; link (vinculum) 45. 
     Adj. contiguous; touching &c. v.; in contact &c. n.; conterminous, end
to end, osculatory; pertingent|; tangential.
     hand to hand; close to &c. (near) 197; with no interval &c. 198.

% 2.  LINEAR DIMENSIONS %

     #200.  Length.—­ N. length, longitude, span; mileage; distance &c. 196.
     line, bar, rule, stripe, streak, spoke, radius.
     lengthening &c. v.; prolongation, production, protraction; tension,
tensure[obs3]; extension.
     [Measures of length] line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard,
ell, fathom, rood, pole, furlong, mile, league; chain, link; arpent[obs3], handbreadth[obs3], jornada [obs3][U.S.], kos[obs3], vara[obs3].
     [astronomical units of distance] astronomical unit, AU, light-year,
parsec.
     [metric units of length] nanometer, nm, micron, micrometer,
millimicron, millimeter, mm, centimeter, cm, meter, kilometer, km.
     pedometer, perambulator; scale &c. (measurement) 466. 
     V. be long &c. adj.; stretch out, sprawl; extend to, reach to, stretch
to; make a long arm, “drag its slow length along.”
     render long &c. adj.; lengthen, extend, elongate; stretch; prolong,
produce, protract; let out, draw out, spin out|!; drawl.
     enfilade, look along, view in perspective.
     distend (expand) 194. 
     Adj. long, longsome[obs3]; lengthy, wiredrawn[obs3], outstretched;
lengthened &c. v.; sesquipedalian &c. (words) 577; interminable, no end of; macrocolous[obs3].
     linear, lineal; longitudinal, oblong.
     as long as my arm, as long as today and tomorrow; unshortened &c.
(shorten &c. 201)[obs3]. 
     Adv. lengthwise, at length, longitudinally, endlong[obs3], along;
tandem; in a line &c. (continuously) 69; in perspective.
     from end to end, from stem to stern, from head to foot, from the crown
of the head to the sole of the foot, from top to toe; fore and aft.

     #201.  Shortness.—­ N. shortness &c. adj.; brevity; littleness &c. 193;
a span.
     shortening &c. v.; abbreviation, abbreviature[obs3]; abridgment,
concision, retrenchment, curtailment, decurtation|; reduction &c. (contraction) 195; epitome &c. (compendium) 596.
     elision, ellipsis; conciseness &c. (in style) 572.
     abridger, epitomist[obs3], epitomizer[obs3]. 
     V. be short &c. adj.; render short &c. adj.; shorten, curtail,
abridge, abbreviate, take in, reduce; compress &c. (contract) 195; epitomize &c. 596.
     retrench, cut short, obtruncate[obs3]; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack,
hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten[in drawing]. 
     Adj. short, brief, curt; compendious, compact; stubby, scrimp; shorn,
stubbed; stumpy, thickset, pug; chunky [U.S.], decurtate[obs3]; retrousse[obs3]; stocky; squab, squabby[obs3]; squat, dumpy; little &c. 193; curtailed of its fair proportions; short by; oblate; concise &c. 572; summary. 
     Adv. shortly &c. adj.; in short &c. (concisely) 572.