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Indigent :: Indigent (a.) Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous.

Lotophagi :: Lotophagi (n. pl.) A people visited by Ulysses in his wanderings. They subsisted on the lotus. See Lotus (b), and Lotus-eater..

Polyphagy :: Polyphagy (n.) The practice or faculty of subsisting on many kinds of food.

Intercontinental :: Intercontinental (a.) Between or among continents; subsisting or carried on between continents; as, intercontinental relations or commerce..

Granivorous :: Granivorous (a.) Eating grain; feeding or subsisting on seeds; as, granivorous birds..

Subsisting :: Subsisted (imp. & p. p.) of Subsis.

Panivorous :: Panivorous (a.) Eating bread; subsisting on bread.

Eleemosynary :: Eleemosynary (n.) One who subsists on charity; a dependent.

Plant-eating :: Plant-eating (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle..

Poverty :: Poverty (n.) The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.

Live :: Live (v. i.) To be maintained in life; to acquire a livelihood; to subsist; -- with on or by; as, to live on spoils..

Inexistence :: Inexistence (n.) Inherence; subsistence.

Graminivorous :: Graminivorous (a.) Feeding or subsisting on grass, and the like food; -- said of horses, cattle, and other animals..

Commissary :: Commissary (n.) An officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post; -- officially called commissary of subsistence.

Empyrean :: Empyrean (n.) The highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to subsist..

Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army..

Subsistence :: Subsistence (n.) Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in bodies..

Subsistence :: Subsist (v. t.) To support with provisions; to feed; to maintain; as, to subsist one's family..

Piscivorous :: Piscivorous (a.) Feeding or subsisting on fish.

Galactophagist :: Galactophagist (n.) One who eats, or subsists on, milk..

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