appendix
from
The 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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Syn: See {Supplement}.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
99 Moby Thesaurus words for "appendix":
PS, Parthian shot, abdomen, accessory, addendum, adjunct, affix,
afterthought, allonge, anus, appurtenance, back matter, blind gut,
bowels, brain, cecum, chorus, coda, codicil, colon, colophon,
commentary, conclusion, consequence, continuance, continuation,
double take, duodenum, dying words, enclitic, endocardium,
entrails, envoi, epilogue, follow-through, follow-up, foregut,
giblets, gizzard, guts, heart, hindgut, infix, innards,
inner mechanism, insides, interlineation, internals, interpolation,
intestine, inwards, jejunum, kidney, kishkes, large intestine,
last words, liver, liver and lights, lung, marginalia, midgut,
note, parting shot, perineum, peroration, postface, postfix,
postlude, postscript, prefix, proclitic, pump, pylorus, rectum,
refrain, rider, scholia, second thought, sequel, sequela, sequelae,
sequelant, sequent, sequitur, small intestine, spleen, stomach,
subscript, suffix, supplement, swan song, tag, tail, ticker,
tripes, vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, works
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