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To summon; to challenge. [Archaic] Man to man will I appeal the Norman to the lists. Sir W. Scott.

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

ld buffalo of India (Bos, or Bubalus, arni), larger than the domestic buffalo and having enormous horns.

Abnormal thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries, esp. of the intima, occurring mostly in old age. -- Ar*te`ri*o*scle*rot"ic (#), a.

Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.

Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty.

Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.

William the Conqueror's expedition to England, preserved in the town museum of Bayeux in Normandy. It is probably of the 11th century, and is attributed by tradition to Matilda, the Conqueror's wife.

An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak. Parker.

A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road.

aking the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal carbonates; an acid carbonate; -- sometimes called supercarbonate.

pigment present in human bile, and in that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary pigment.

An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.

aking the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal sulphates; an acid sulphate.

A book containing details of the enormities practiced in the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII., to hasten their dissolution.

The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness. They're darker now than blackness. Donne.

A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of which is partly blanches before it is woven.

The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it. Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean. Tennyson.

stigma, upon. The Inquisition branded its victims with infamy. Prescott. There were the enormities, branded and condemned by the first and most natural verdict of common humanity. South.

An abnormal sound of several kinds, heard on auscultation.