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Ap`pel*lee", n. [F. appelé, p. p. of appeler, fr. L. appellare.] (Law) (a) The defendant in an appeal; -- opposed to appellant. (b) The person who is appealed against, or accused of crime; -- opposed to appellor. Blackstone.

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Ap`pel*lor" (p`pl*lôr"), n. [OF. apeleur, fr. L. appellator, fr. appellare.] (Law) (a) The person who institutes an appeal, or prosecutes another for a crime. Blackstone. (b) One who confesses a felony committed and accuses his accomplices. Blount. Burrill.

This word is rarely or never used for the plaintiff in appeal from a lower court, who is called the appellant. Appellee is opposed both to appellant and appellor.

Ap"pen*age, n. See Appanage.

Ap*pend" (p*pnd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Appended; p. pr. & vb. n. Appending.] [L. appendere or F. appendre: cf. OE. appenden, apenden, to belong, OF. apendre, F. appendre, fr. L. appendre, v. i., to hang to, appendre, v. t., to hang to; ad + pendre, v. i., to hang, pendre, v. t., to hang. See Pendant.] 1. To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.

2. To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter.

A further purpose appended to the primary one. I. Taylor.

Ap*pend"age, n. 1. Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.

Modesty is the appendage of sobriety. Jer. Taylor.

2. (Biol.) A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates.

Antennæ and other appendages used for feeling. Carpenter.

Syn. -- Addition; adjunct; concomitant.

Ap*pend"aged, a. Furnished with, or supplemented by, an appendage.

Ap*pend"ance, n. [F.] Something appendant.

Ap*pend"ant, a. [F. appendant, p. pr. of appendre. See Append, v. t.] 1. Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper.

As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity. Jer. Taylor.

2. (Law) Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; -- said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house. Wharton. Coke.

Ap*pend"ant, n. 1. Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.

2. (Law) A inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.

{ Ap*pend"ence (&?;), Ap*pend"en*cy (&?;), } n. State of being appendant; appendance. [Obs.]

Ap*pend"i*cal (&?;), a. Of or like an appendix.

Ap*pend"i*cate (&?;), v. t. To append. [Obs.]

Ap*pend`i*ca"tion (&?;), n. An appendage. [Obs.]

Ap*pend`i*ci"tis (&?;), n. (Med.) Inflammation of the vermiform appendix.

Ap*pend"i*cle (&?;), n. [L. appendicula, dim. of. appendix.] A small appendage.

Ap`pen*dic"u*lar (&?;), a. Relating to an appendicle; appendiculate. [R.]

||Ap`pen*dic`u*la"ri*a (&?;), n. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A genus of small free-swimming Tunicata, shaped somewhat like a tadpole, and remarkable for resemblances to the larvæ of other Tunicata. It is the type of the order Copelata or Larvalia. See Illustration in Appendix.