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Capable of being amended; as, an amendable writ or error. -- A*mend"a*ble*ness, n.

Supplying amendment; corrective; emendatory. Bancroft.

A pecuniary punishment or fine; a reparation or recantation. Amende honorable(#). (Old French Law) A species of infamous punishment in which the offender, being led into court with a rope about his neck, and a lighted torch in his hand, begged pardon of his God, the court, etc. In popular language, the phrase now denot…

One who amends.

Much improving. [Obs.]

An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.

r a loss or injury; recompense; reparation. [Now const. with sing. verb.] "An honorable amends." Addison. Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends. Shak.

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.