purtenance

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PUR'TENANCE, noun [from the Latin pertinens, pertineo. See Appurtenance. (that which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage)] Appurtenance; but applied to the pluck of an animal, Exodus 12:9.
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