Depend

de-pend', v. To hang; to be sustained by something above; to be in suspense, remain undetermined; to rely for support, stand related to anything, as to a cause or condition to trust, confide, rely; to be in a condition of service. [OF. dependre, dejiendere, f de and pendere, to hang.] — Dependent, -ant, a. Hanging down: relying on, or subject to something else for support; conditional; subordinate. — n. One who, or that which, etc.; one sustained by, or relying on, another; a retainer; a corollary; consequence. [L. p. pr. tlependens, -ent is; F. p. pr. dependant.] — Depend'ence, -ens, n. Act or state of, etc.; mutual connection and support; concatenation; inter-relation; subjection to the direction of another; inability to provide for one's self; reliance; trust; thing dependent. — Depend'ency, n. State of being, etc.; thing hanging; that attached to something else as consequence, subordinate, satellite, etc.; a territory remote trom the state to which belongs, but subject to its dominion; a colony.— Depend'ently. ctdr. — Depend'er, n. Dephlegmato, de-fleg'mat, To deprive of superabundant water, as bv evaporation or distillation; to rectify. [NL. dephlrgmare, -matum, fr de and L. phlegm a', phlegm.] — Dephlegma'tion, n. Operation of separating water from spirits and acids by evaporation or distillation; concentration.