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Insectivorous :: Insectivorous (a.) Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous.

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

Livelihood :: Livelihood (n.) Subsistence or living, as dependent on some means of support; support of life; maintenance..

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

Subsizar :: Subsistent (a.) Inherent; as, qualities subsistent in matter..

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..

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

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

Indigence :: Indigence (n.) The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence..

Trade :: Trade (v.) The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician..

Obtain :: Obtain (v. i.) To become held; to gain or have a firm footing; to be recognized or established; to subsist; to become prevalent or general; to prevail; as, the custom obtains of going to the seashore in summer..

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

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

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

Hypostasis :: Hypostasis (n.) Substance; subsistence; essence; person; personality; -- used by the early theologians to denote any one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit..

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

Subsistent :: Subsistent (a.) Having real being; as, a subsistent spirit..

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

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

Ichthyophagist :: Ichthyophagist (n.) One who eats, or subsists on, fish..

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