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To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter. A further purpose appended to the primary one. I. Taylor.

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.

animal selection or appetency the absorb such part of the fluid as is agreeable to their palate. E. Darwin.

t occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; -- generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony.

A access, or opportunity of drawing near. The approach to kings and principal persons. Bacon.

To make suitable; to suit. [Archaic] Paley.

; 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 to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an…

A transparent, pale green variety of beryl, used as a gem. See Beryl.

The palm (or great black) cockatoo, of Australia (Microglossus aterrimus).

Chief; eminent; greatest; principal. The most arch act of piteous massacre. Shak.

or pertaining to the earliest Stone age; -- applied to a prehistoric period preceding the Paleolithic age.

perintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.

r office of an archbishop; the see or province over which archbishop exercises archiepiscopal authority.

A principal enemy. Specifically, Satan, the grand adversary of mankind. Milton.

Relating to an archetype; archetypal.

A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing.

A genus of palms, one species of which produces the areca nut, or betel nut, which is chewed in India with the leaf of the Piper Betle and lime.

A palm tree (Saguerus saccharifer) which furnishes sago, wine, and fibers for ropes; the gomuti palm.

Proof; evidence. [Obs.] There is.. no more palpable and convincing argument of the existence of a Deity. Ray. Why, then, is it made a 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.

A form a government, in which the supreme power is vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order; an oligarchy. The aristocracy of Venice hath admitted so many abuses, trough the degeneracy of the nobles, that the period of its duration seems approach. Swift.