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Convoy :: Convoy (n.) A vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons, employed in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence, clothing, etc., and having an armed escort..

Living :: Living (n.) Means of subsistence; sustenance; estate.

Independence :: Independence (n.) 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..

Sportule :: Sportulary (a.) Subsisting on alms or charitable contributions.

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

Sanguivorous :: Sanguivorous (a.) Subsisting upon blood; -- said of certain blood-sucking bats and other animals. See Vampire.

Profession :: Profession (v.) That of which one professed knowledge; the occupation, if not mechanical, agricultural, or the like, to which one devotes one's self; the business which one professes to understand, and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as, the profession of arms; the profession of a clergyman, lawyer, or physician; the profession of lecturer on chemistry..

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

Sanguinivorous :: Sanguinivorous (a.) Subsisting on blood.

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

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.

Baccivorous :: Baccivorous (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds..

Subsist :: Subsist (v. i.) To be maintained with food and clothing; to be supported; to live.

Ichthyophagous :: Ichthyophagous (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, fish..

Entophyte :: Entophyte (n.) A vegetable parasite subsisting in the interior of the body.

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

Rypophagous :: Rypophagous (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, filth..

Appanage :: Appanage (n.) The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons.

Subsist :: Subsisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subsis.

Victual :: Victual (v. t.) To supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with food; to store with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to victual a ship..

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