Appanage

1. n. That which belongs to one by custom or right; a natural adjunct or accompaniment.
2. n. The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons.
3. n. A dependency; a dependent territory.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.