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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances. Reid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
Syn. -- gear, paraphernalia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Something which belongs or appertains to another thing; an appurtenance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mysterious appurtenants and symbols of redemption. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. appartenant, p. pr. of appartenir. See Appurtenance. ] Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Common appurtenant. (Law) See under Common, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To spurt on or over; to asperse. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Roast [ it ] with fire, his head with his legs, and with the purtenance [ Rev. Ver., inwards ] thereof. Ex. xii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Written also spirt, and originally the same word as sprit; OE. sprutten to sprout, AS. spryttan. See Sprit, v. i., Sprout, v. i. ] To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thus the small jet, which hasty hands unlock,
Spurts in the gardener's eyes who turns the cock. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To throw out, as a liquid, in a stream or jet; to drive or force out with violence, as a liquid from a pipe or small orifice; as, to spurt water from the mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A sudden or violent ejection or gushing of a liquid, as of water from a tube, orifice, or other confined place, or of blood from a wound; a jet; a spirt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A shoot; a bud. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fig.: A sudden outbreak; as, a spurt of jealousy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spurt grass (Bot.), a rush fit for basket work. Dr. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Icel. sprettr a spurt, spring, run, spretta to spirt, spring. ] A sudden and energetic effort, as in an emergency; an increased exertion for a brief space. [ 1913 Webster ]

The long, steady sweep of the so-called “paddle” tried him almost as much as the breathless strain of the spurt. T. Hughes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Spurted; p. pr. & vb. n. Spurting. ] To make a sudden and violent exertion, as in an emergency. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Freq. of spurt. ] To spurt or shoot in a scattering manner. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]