Dictionary entry

Appendix

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Normandy became an appendix to England.

Sir M. Hale.

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.

Syn. — See Supplement.