SUPPLEMENT. 
ANY MANNER OF MEANS. A friend who has resided in Connecticut informs me 
that this expression is very common at the Bar in that state. 
AnxiETUDE. [never met with this word but in one instance in any American 
publication. 
AppeLttare. (See V ocabulary.) ‘The Edinburgh Reviewers use this term : 
“ An appeal presupposes, in order to be effectual, a decided superiority in 
the Court of afpediate jurisdiction.” Edind. Rev. No. xii. p. 110. “ Alt 
the other branches of the affellate jurisdiction,” &c. p- 120. I have also 
met with it once in Leach’s edition of Hawkins’s Pleas of the Crown: 
“ Consent cannot give original jurisdiction to a court that has only an > 
fellate jurisdiction.” Book I. c. 76. § 132. 
oe eas in hi. cxpression : “ Sales at auction.” phe Eagteh, say, Sales by 
Some = - te | jee lee aoe 
aay: aad analogy © WAtsA WELL DO by prsvace Vig Veaive by pet 2s) 
candle, &e. 
To AveRrsce. (See Vocab.) Used in some parts of England: “ The fall [of snow] 
averaged full twenty inches, which unusual depth was formed in little more 
than six hours.” London Star of Jan. 27, 1814,ina Plymouth article. 
Banpirri1. (See Vocad.) The following is an instance of the use of this as a 
singular noun in an English work : “ It was indeed a noble triumph of a fe- 
rocious banditti in arms oyer helpless women,” &c. Brit. Crit. vol ii. p. 
242, 
Bawnk-BiLL. (See Vocab.) Ihave once met with this word in a modern En- 
glish publication: “ For nearly the same reasons that a bank-dill is fre- 
quently called by the name of the sum of money which it represents.” 
Brit. Crit. yol. xxii. p. 35. 
®o Borrom. (See Vocad.) To the authorites cited and referred to under this 
word may be added the following : “ Most of our laws respecting personal 
