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to 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.

One who depends; a dependent.

As having dependence. Hale.

To spend; to squander. See Dispend. [Obs.] Some noble men in Spain can despend Howell.

The interval of the fifth.

A detachment or separation from a former connection. [R.]

Freed from a former connection or dependence; disconnected. [R.]

See Dispense. [Obs.]

To spend; to lay out; to expend. [Obs.] Spenser. Able to dispend yearly twenty pounds and above. Fuller.

One who dispends or expends; a steward. [Obs.] Wyclif (1 Cor. iv. 1).

Capable of being dispensed or administered.

Quality of being dispensable.

A place where medicines are prepared and dispensed; esp., a place where the poor can obtain medical advice and medicines gratuitously or at a nominal price.

The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration. To respect the dispensations of Providence. Burke.