- Offshoot - River feeder - Stream flowing into a larger one - Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an
acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the
purpose of purchasing peace. - Hence, subject; subordinate; inferior. - Paid in tribute. - 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.