Appendix

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  appendix
       n 1: supplementary material that is collected and appended at the
            back of a book
       2: a vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the
          cecum and that resembles a small pouch [syn: {vermiform
          appendix}, {vermiform process}, {cecal appendage}]
       [also: {appendices} (pl)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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