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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tributary \Trib"u*ta*ry\, a. [OE. tributaire F. tributaire L.
tributarius. See {Tribute}.]
1. Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an
acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or
for the purpose of purchasing peace.
[Julius] unto Rome made them tributary. --Chaucer.
2. Hence subject; subordinate; inferior.
He to grace his tributary gods. --Milton.
3. Paid in tribute. ``Tributary tears.'' --Shak.
4. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tributary \Trib"u*ta*ry\, n.; pl {Tributaries}.
1. 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.
2. A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a
lake; an affluent.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
tributary
adj : of a stream; flowing into a larger stream
n : a branch that flows into the main stream [syn: {feeder}, {affluent}]
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