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noun

Appendage n.

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."

(Biol.) A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates. "Antennae and other appendages used for feeling."

Synonyms: Addition; adjunct; concomitant.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Appendage" Quotes from Famous Books

... rays, beyond the red, the curve shoots up to B, in a steep and massive peak—a kind of Matterhorn of heat, which dwarfs the portion of the diagram C D E, representing the luminous radiation. Indeed the idea forced upon the mind by this diagram is that the light rays are a mere insignificant appendage to the heat-rays represented by the area A B C D, thrown in as it were by nature for the purpose ...

— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall

... generalize what varies in every bird. 8 inches long, by 10 across the wings open, is near enough. In future, the brief notification 8 x 10, 5 x 7, or the like, will enough express a bird's inches, unless it possess decorative appendage of tail, which must ...

— Love's Meinie - Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds • John Ruskin

... tangible workings of criminal investigation her resolution and her theories shrank to vanishing-point. She clasped the ticket in her hand and felt for a pocket, but the dressmaker had not provided her with that useful appendage. ...

— The Green Rust • Edgar Wallace

... and he invariably returned to India long before his furlough had expired. He was a bachelor from choice. When young he had been very cruelly treated by the object of his admiration, who deserted him for a few lacks of rupees, which offered themselves with an old man as their appendage. This had raised his bile against the sex in general, whom he considered as mercenary and treacherous. His parties were numerous and expensive: but women were never to be seen in his house; and his confirmed dislike ...

— Newton Forster - The Merchant Service • Captain Frederick Marryat

... firmest patriot in the kingdom, as one of the most shining ornaments of his country, could give up all his popularity, and incur the contempt or detestation of mankind, for the wretched consideration of an empty title, without office, influence, or the least substantial appendage. One cannot, without an emotion of grief, contemplate such an instance of infatuation—one cannot but lament that such glory should have been so weakly forfeited; that such talents should have been lost to ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett

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