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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Abbrev. fr.

appurtenance

That which pertains or belongs to something; esp., the heard, liver, and lungs of an animal.

[Obs.]

“ The purtenaunces of purgatory.”

Piers Plowman.

Roast [it] with fire, his head with his legs, and with the

purtenance

[Rev. Ver., inwards] thereof.

Ex. xii. 9.

Noun.

[from the L.pertinens, pertineo. See Appurtenance.] Appurtenance; but applied to the pluck of an animal, Ex.12.