appurtenance : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: appurtenance	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
appurtenance n equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. Synonym(s): gear, paraphernalia, appurtenance a supplementary component that improves capability Synonym(s): accessory, appurtenance, supplement, add-on
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Appurtenance \Appur"tenance\, 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.