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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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