William Grimshaw - Women's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 428 pages
...denEPARTMENT. «. Separate allotment; province or business assigned to a particular person, adj. departmental. DEPEND*, v. To hang from ; to be in a state of dependence, pr. par depending; past, depended: s. dependmce, dependency, pi. depen dencies: adj. and s. dipindtut:...
Depend, v. to hang from, to be in a state of dependence... 