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Bible Dictionaries
Tributary
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; an affluent.
(2):
(a.) Paid in tribute.
(3):
(a.) Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.; contributing; as, the Ohio has many tributary streams, and is itself tributary to the Mississippi.
(4):
(n.) A ruler or state that pays tribute, or a stated sum, to a conquering power, for the purpose of securing peace and protection, or as an acknowledgment of submission, or for the purchase of security.
(5):
(a.) Hence, subject; subordinate; inferior.
(6):
(a.) Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Tributary'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/t/tributary.html. 1828.
