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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
accession, accessories, accessory, accompaniment, addenda, addendum, additament, addition, additive, additory, additum, adjunct, adjuvant, annex, annexation, appanages, appendage, appendages, appendant, appointments, appurtenance, appurtenances, appurtenant, attachment, augment, augmentation, belongings, birthright, choses, choses in action, choses in possession, choses local, choses transitory, coda, complement, concomitant, continuation, corollary, dot, dower, dowry, endowment, extension, extrapolation, fixture, foundation, increase, increment, investment, jointure, legal jointure, marriage portion, material things, movables, offshoot, paraphernalia, pendant, perquisite, perquisites, personal effects, portion, prerogative, privilege, reinforcement, settlement, side effect, side issue, supplement, tailpiece, things, thirds, trappings, undergirding
Dictionary Results for appanage:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
appanage
    n 1: any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your
         station in life; "for thousands of years the chair was an
         appanage of state and dignity rather than an article of
         ordinary use" [syn: appanage, apanage]
    2: a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources
       to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family;
       "bishoprics were received as appanages for the younger sons
       of great families" [syn: appanage, apanage]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Appanage \Ap"pa*nage\, n. [F. apanage, fr. OF. apaner to
   nourish, support, fr. LL. apanare to furnish with bread, to
   provision; L. ad + pains bread.]
   1. The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the
      subsistence of his younger sons.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A dependency; a dependent territory.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. That which belongs to one by custom or right; a natural
      adjunct or accompaniment. "Wealth . . . the appanage of
      wit." --Swift.
      [1913 Webster]

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