Purtenance: Definition and part of speech

Purtenance

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

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.

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