limit

circuitous, indirect, roundabout; zigzag (deviating); backhanded.

comparative; gradual, shading off; within the bounds (limit).

border, marginal, skirting; labial, labiated, marginated.

high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall; gigantic (big); Patagonian; towering, beetling, soaring, hanging [gardens]; elevated; upper; highest (topmost); high reaching, insessorial, perching., upland, moorland; hilly, knobby [U.S.]; mountainous, alpine, subalpine, heaven kissing; cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching; aerial., overhanging ; incumbent, overlying, superincumbent, supernatant, superimposed; prominent., tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple; lanky (thin).

long, longsome; lengthy, wiredrawn, outstretched; lengthened; sesquipedalian (words); interminable, no end of; macrocolous., linear, lineal; longitudinal, oblong., as long as my arm, as long as today and tomorrow; unshortened (shorten [more]).

horary; hourly, annual (periodical).

restrained, constrained; imprisoned; pent up; jammed in, wedged in; under lock and key, under restraint, under hatches; in swaddling clothes; on parole; in custody (prisoner); cohibitive; coactive (compulsory)., stiff, restringent, strait-laced, hidebound, barkbound., ice bound, wind bound, weather bound; "cabined cribbed confined" [Macbeth]; in Lob's pound, laid by the heels.

circumscribed; begirt, lapt; buried in, immersed in; embosomed, in the bosom of, imbedded, encysted, mewed up; imprisoned; landlocked, in a ring fence.