tributariness

[English tributary; -ne .) The quality or state of being tributary. trib-u-tar-, *trib-u-tar-ie, a . & s. [Fr.tributaire, from Lat. tributarius =paying tribute, from tributum tribute (q. v.); Sp., Port. & Ital. tribu tario.] A. As adjective : 1. Paying tribute to another, whether under compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submi ion or dependence, or voluntarily, to secure protection or for the purpose of purchasing peace. "Viewed a Deliverer with disdain and hate, Who left them still a tributary state." Cowper: Expostulation, 218. 2. Subject, subordinate. "These he, to trace his tributary gods, By course commits to several governments." Milton: Comus , 24. 3. Paid in or as tribute. "At this tomb my tributary tears I render." Shakesp.: Titus Andronicus, i. 4. Yielding supplies of anything; serving to form or make up a greater object of the same kind. "Poor tributary rivers." B. As substantive: Shakesp.: Cymbeline, iv. 2. 1. Ord. Lang.: An individual government or state which pays tribute or a stated sum to another, whether as an acknowledgment of submi ion or dependence, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace. 2. Geog.: A stream which directly or indirectly contributes water to another; an affluent. 4178 trib'-ute, *trib-ut, subst . [Fr. tribut , from Lat. tributum tribute, prop. neut. sing. of tri but us , pa. par. of tribuo =to a ign, to allot, to pay, from tribus =a tribe (q. v.); Sp., Port. & Ital. tributo .] I. Ordinary Language : 1. An annual or stated sum of money or other valuable thing paid by one prince or nation to another, either as an acknowledgment of submi ion and dependence, or to secure protection, or to purchase peace, or by virtue of some treaty. "Forbedynge tri but is to be gouun to the emperour and seiynge that himsilf is Crist a kyng."-Wycliffe: Luke xxiii. 2. The state of being under the obligation to pay such sum; the obligation of contributing; as, to lay a country under tribute . *3. That which was paid by a subject to the sovereign of a country; a tax. 4. A personal contribution; something given or contributed; anything done or given out of devotion or as due or deserved; as, a tribute of affection or of respect. II. Mining: 1. Work performed in the excavation of ore in a mine, as distinguished from tut-work, which is upon the non-metalliferous rock, as in sinking shafts and the driving of adits and drifts. "Some twelve men are now working old dump, concen trating on tribute."-Money Market Review , Aug. 29, 1885. workman receives for his labor. 2. The proportion of ore which the tributer or