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Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas. Locke.

That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common t…

Something which belongs or appertains to another thing; an appurtenance. Mysterious appurtenants and symbols of redemption. Coleridge.

A group of Turbellaria in which there is no anal aperture.

Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron; as, (a) The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

used to introduce an incidental observation, suited to the occasion, though not strictly belonging to the narration.

Belonging to or like an eagle.

being wet or watery; wateriness. Huxley. Very little water or aquosity is found in their belly. Holland.

The treelike disposition of the gray and white nerve tissues in the cerebellum, as seen in a vertical section.

The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night. Electric arc, Voltaic arc. See under Voltaic.

Like or belonging to the earliest forms of animal life.

In England, an ecclesiastical dignitary, next in rank below a bishop, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with independent authority. Blackstone.

Architectonic wisdom." Boyle. These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged. J. C. Shairp.

tric lamps (white and red) is arranged vertically on a mast, and operated from a keyboard below.

badge of wit and an argument of parts for a man to commence atheist, and to cast off all belief of providence, all awe and reverence for religion South.

One who adheres to or believes the doctrines of Arius. Mosheim.

One who favors an aristocracy as a form of government, or believes the aristocracy should govern. His whole family are accused of being aristocrats. Romilly.

A marine bivalve shell belonging to the genus Arca and its allies.

Belonging to the ark. [R.] Faber.

All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.