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A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery.

The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal. Smollett.

To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.

Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house. Modesty is the appendage of sobriety. Jer. Taylor.

Furnished with, or supplemented by, an appendage.

Something appendant.

Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper. As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity. Jer. Taylor.

Excision of the vermiform appendix.

State of being appendant; appendance. [Obs.]

Of or like an appendix.

To append. [Obs.]

An appendage. [Obs.]

Inflammation of the vermiform appendix.

A small appendage.

Relating to an appendicle; appendiculate. [R.]

f other Tunicata. It is the type of the order Copelata or Larvalia. See Illustration in Appendix.

An order of annelids; the Polychæta.

Having small appendages; forming an appendage. Appendiculate leaf, a small appended leaf. Withering.

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

The vermiform appendix.