appendices

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appendices - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Appendix \Ap*pen"dix\, n.; pl. E. Appendixes, L. Appendices.
     [L. appendix, -dicis, fr. appendere. See Append.]
     1. Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or
        concomitant.
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              Normandy became an appendix to England. --Sir M.
                                                    Hale.
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     2. Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily
        essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished from
        supplement, which is intended to supply deficiencies and
        correct inaccuracies.
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     3. (Anatomy) The vermiform appendix.
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     Syn: See Supplement.
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