Depend

de-pend′, v.i. to hang down: to be sustained by or connected with anything: to be pending: to rely: to rest.— adjs. Depend′able , that may be depended on; Depend′ent , depending, relying on, contingent, relative.— n. a subordinate: a hanger-on—also Depend′ant .— ns. Depend′ence , state of being dependent, reliance, trust: that on which one depends—also Depend′ance ; Depend′ency , same as Dependence , in the additional sense of a foreign territory dependent on the mother-country, a kind of subordinate colony without self-government.— adj. Depend′ing , still undetermined.— adv. Depend′ingly . [Fr. dépendre —L. dependēre — de , from, and pendēre , to hang.]