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- Dependent - a. - Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.
- Dependent - a. - Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining; contingent or conditioned; subordinate; -- often with on or upon; as, dependent on God; dependent upon friends.
- Dependent - n. - One who depends; one who is sustained by another, or who relies on another for support of favor; a hanger-on; a retainer; as, a numerous train of dependents.
- Dependent - n. - That which depends; corollary; consequence.
- Dependently - adv. - In a dependent manner.
- Lustre - n. - The appearance of the surface of a mineral as affected by, or dependent upon, peculiarities of its reflecting qualities.
- Delirium - n. - A state in which the thoughts, expressions, and actions are wild, irregular, and incoherent; mental aberration; a roving or wandering of the mind, -- usually dependent on a fever or some other disease, and so distinguished from mania, or madness.
- Bag - n. - A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.
- Imprescriptible - a. - Not derived from, or dependent on, external authority; self-evidencing; obvious.
- Dependent - a. - Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.
- Neurasthenia - n. - A condition of nervous debility supposed to be dependent upon impairment in the functions of the spinal cord.
- Scrofulide - n. - Any affection of the skin dependent on scrofula.
- Commoner - n. - A student in the university of Oxford, Eng., who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; - - at Cambridge called a pensioner.
- Feeling - n. - The capacity of the soul for emotional states; a high degree of susceptibility to emotions or states of the sensibility not dependent on the body; as, a man of feeling; a man destitute of feeling.
- Stimulism - n. - The theory of medical practice which regarded life as dependent upon stimulation, or excitation, and disease as caused by excess or deficiency in the amount of stimulation.
- Uxorious - a. - Excessively fond of, or submissive to, a wife; being a dependent husband.
- Up - adv. - From a lower to a higher position, literally or figuratively; as, from a recumbent or sitting position; from the mouth, toward the source, of a river; from a dependent or inferior condition; from concealment; from younger age; from a quiet state, or the like; -- used with verbs of motion expressed or implied.
- Absolute - a. - Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.
- Extraneous - a. - Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; not essential or intrinsic; foreign; as, to separate gold from extraneous matter.
- Bilious - a. - Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with an excess of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an excess of bile; as, bilious symptoms.
- Tetrarch - a. - A Roman governor of the fourth part of a province; hence, any subordinate or dependent prince; also, a petty king or sovereign.
- Polaristic - a. - Pertaining to, or exhibiting, poles; having a polar arrangement or disposition; arising from, or dependent upon, the possession of poles or polar characteristics; as, polaristic antagonism.
- Addison's disease - - A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.
- Electro-vital - a. - Derived from, or dependent upon, vital processes; -- said of certain electric currents supposed by some physiologists to circulate in the nerves of animals.
- Positive - a. - Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute; -- opposed to relative; as, the idea of beauty is not positive, but depends on the different tastes individuals.
- When - adv. - While; whereas; although; -- used in the manner of a conjunction to introduce a dependent adverbial sentence or clause, having a causal, conditional, or adversative relation to the principal proposition; as, he chose to turn highwayman when he might have continued an honest man; he removed the tree when it was the best in the grounds.
- Depend - v. i. - To serve; to attend; to act as a dependent or retainer.
- Independent - a. - Not dependent upon another quantity in respect to value or rate of variation; -- said of quantities or functions.
- Lunitidal - a. - Pertaining to tidal movements dependent on the moon.
- Caligo - n. - Dimness or obscurity of sight, dependent upon a speck on the cornea; also, the speck itself.
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