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State of being a client.

A dependent; one under the protection of another. I do think they are your friends and clients, And fearful to disturb you. B. Jonson.

State of being client.

Of or pertaining to a client. A dependent and cliental relation. Burke. I sat down in the cliental chair. Dickens.

Supplied with clients. [R.] The least cliented pettifiggers. R. Carew.

See Clientele, n., 2.

The condition or position of a client; clientship. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Condition of a client; state of being under the protection of a patron. Dryden.

Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence. The consilience of inductions takes place when one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from another different class. Whewell.

Leaping from each other; -- said of two figures on a coast of arms.

The act of leaping or starting asunder. Johnson.

ng asunder; bursting and opening with an elastic force; dehiscing explosively; as, a dissilient pericarp.

A boiling up or over; effervescence. Cudworth.

or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing. "Ebullient with subtlety." De Quincey. The ebullient enthusiasm of the French. Carlyle.

Softening; making supple; acting as an emollient. "Emollient applications." Arbuthnot.

A leaping out. [R.] Latham.

A charge, lien, etc., that successively attaches to such assets as a person may have from time to time, leaving him more or less free to dispose of or encumber them as if no such charge or lien existed.

The quality or state of being inalienable.

Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; as, in inalienable birthright.

The quality or state of being inalienable; inalienability.