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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Appurtenance \Ap*pur"te*nance\, n. [OF. apurtenaunce apartenance F. appartenance, LL appartenentia from L. appertinere See {Appertain}.] 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 to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense land can never pass as an appurtenance to land. --Tomlins. --Bouvier. --Burrill. Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy. --Bacon. The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances. --Reid. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: appurtenance n : a supplementary component [syn: {accessory}, {supplement}]
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