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Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant. Normandy became an appendix to England. Sir M. Hale.

The vermiform appendix.

The act of appending. [Obs.]

Formerly, a measure of land in France, varying in different parts of the country. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre. The woodland arpent was about 1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch, English.

The Anglicized form of the French arpenteur, a land surveyor. [R.]

Of or pertaining to the aspen, or resembling it; made of aspen wood. Nor aspen leaves confess the gentlest breeze. Gay.

One of several species of poplar bearing this name, especially the Populus tremula, so called from the trembling of its leaves, which move with the slightest impulse of the air.

Money paid by a tenant in lieu of the service of average.

To happen to. [Obs.]

Having two wings. "Bipennated insects." Derham.

An ax with an edge or blade on each side of the handle.

Bow-compasses carrying a drawing pen. See Bow-compass.

Bow-compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil.

A brevipennate bird.

Short-winged; -- applied to birds which can not fly, owing to their short wings, as the ostrich, cassowary, and emu.

An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory. Shak.

An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc.

The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of workingin timber; carpentry.

nnected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.

Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show. -- n.