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To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place belonging to . . . Bethsaids. Luke ix. 10. The mighty men which belonged to David. 1 Kings i. 8.

That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance.

Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.

part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened. Shak. The foamy bridle with the bit of gold. Chaucer.

The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom.

ul serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.

beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix.

upport the gills on each side of the throat of fishes and amphibians. See Illustration in Appendix. -- Branchial clefts, the openings between the branchial arches through which water passes.

A branchiostegal ray. See Illustration of Branchial arches in Appendix.

The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix.

horse is governed and restrained, consisting of a headstall, a bit, and reins, with other appendages.

, a two- masted vessel square-rigged forward and schooner-rigged aft. See Illustration in Appendix.

horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix.

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

An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed.

orward as possible, carring a sail extended by a graff and long boom. See Illustration in Appendix.

Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a tail; having a tail-like appendage. The male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes. Darwin. Caudal fin (Zoöl.), the terminal fin (or "tail") of a fish.

the bivalves; -- so called because the head is distinctly developed. See Illustration in Appendix.

ngth, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix.

f a trematode worm having the shape of a tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage.