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To degenerate. [Obs.] "Degendering to hate." Spenser. He degenereth into beastliness. Joye.

Things to be erased or blotted out.

Arborescent or dendritic agate.

Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.

A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.

Pertaining to a dendrite, or to arborescent crystallization; having a form resembling a shrub or tree; arborescent.

A division of the Turbellaria in which the digestive cavity gives off lateral branches, which are often divided into smaller branchlets.

Resembling a shrub or tree in form; treelike.

A petrified or fossil shrub, plant, or part of a plant.

One versed in the natural history of trees.

Relating to dendrology.

A discourse or treatise on trees; the natural history of trees.

An instrument to measure the height and diameter of trees.

o be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above. And ever-living lamps depend in rows. Pope.

Worthy of being depended on; trustworthy. "Dependable friendships." Pope.

See Dependent, Dependence, Dependency.

The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support.

State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust. Any long series of action, the parts of which have very much dependency each on the other. Sir J. Reynolds. So that they may acknowledge their dependency on the crown of England. Bacon.…

Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.

In a dependent manner.