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Slope; inclination. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

State of being appendant; appendance. [Obs.]

An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory. Shak.

by something; subjection (as of an effect to its cause). The cause of effects, and the dependence of one thing upon another. Bp. Burnet.

The state of impending; also, that which impends. "Impendence of volcanic cloud." Ruskin.

The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self- subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference. Let fortune do her worst, . . . as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. Pope.…

States, a holiday, the 4th of July, commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on that day in 1776.

Mutual dependence. "The interdependence of virtue and knowledge." M. Arnold.

the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. The abandonment of the independence of Europe. Burke.

Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.

The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.

state; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud. Blackstone. Bouvier.

Fig.: That which gives stability or security; that on which we place dependence for safety. Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul. Heb. vi. 19.

nt took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy. Barlow.

The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.

power among sovereign states that no one state is in a position to interfere with the independence of the others; international equilibrium; also, the ability ( of a state or a third party within a state) to control the relations between sovereign states or between dominant parties in a state. -- Balance sheet (Bookke…

The physiological individual, characterized by definiteness and independence of function, in distinction from the morphological individual or morphon.

ers to chance. -- Calculus of variations, a branch of mathematics in which the laws of dependence which bind the variable quantities together are themselves subject to change. -- Differential calculus, a method of investigating mathematical questions by using the ratio of certain indefinitely small quantities called…

nt or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal. Dependence is a perpetual call upon hummanity. Addison. Running into danger without any call of duty. Macaulay.