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pal 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.

A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages.

Precipitously. Abruptly pinnate (Bot.), pinnate without an odd leaflet, or other appendage, at the end. Gray.

That which adheres; an appendage. [R.] Milton.

That which is affixed; an appendage; esp. one or more letters or syllables added at the end of a word; a suffix; a postfix.

Winged; having wings, or side appendages like wings.

A membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, -- in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the urinary vesicle.

d America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc.

The act of annexing, or the thing annexed; appendage. [R.] Shak.

An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather. Audsley.

A group of worms without appendages, as the leech.

An appendage. [Obs.]

A small appendage.

Having small appendages; forming an appendage. Appendiculate leaf, a small appended leaf. Withering.

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

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…

A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white water lily. The mace of the nutmeg is also an aril. Gray.

One of the segments of an articulated appendage. Articles of Confederation, the compact which was first made by the original thirteen States of the United States. They were adopted March 1, 1781, and remained the supreme law until March, 1789. -- Articles of impeachment, an instrument which, in cases of impeachment, p…

A joint of the cirri of the Crinoidea; a joint or segment of an arthropod appendage.