A division of Pulmonata in which the eyes are situated at the tips of the tentacles. It includes the common land snails and slugs. See Illust. under Snail.

Of or pertaining to Stylommatophora.

An expansion at the base of the style, as in umbelliferous plants.

A genus of minute insects parasitic, in their larval state, on bees and wasps. It is the typical genus of the group Strepsiptera, formerly considered a distinct order, but now generally referred to the Coleoptera. See Strepsiptera.

An instrument for writing. See Style, n., 1.

A salt of styphnic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, a yellow crystalline astringent acid, (NO2)3.C6H.(OH)2, obtained by the action of nitric acid on resorcin. Styphnic acid resembles picric acid, but is not bitter. It acts like a strong dibasic acid, having a series of well defined salts.

A styptic medicine.

Styptic; astringent.

The quality or state of being styptic; astringency.

A white crystalline tasteless substance extracted from gum storax, and consisting of a salt of cinnamic acid with cinnamic alcohol.

A genus of shrubs and trees, mostly American or Asiatic, abounding in resinous and aromatic substances. Styrax officinalis yields storax, and Styrax Benzoin yields benzoin.

See Styrolene.

An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C8H8, obtained by the distillation of storax, by the decomposition of cinnamic acid, and by the condensation of acetylene, as a fragrant, aromatic, mobile liquid; -- called also phenyl ethylene, vinyl benzene, styrol, styrene, and cinnamene.

A white crystalline substance having a sweet taste and a hyacinthlike odor, obtained by the decomposition of styracin; -- properly called cinnamic alcohol or styryl alcohol.

A hypothetical radical found in certain derivatives of styrolene and cinnamic acid; -- called also cinnyl, or cinnamyl.

Choke damp.

See Stithy.

The principal river of the lower world, which had to be crossed in passing to the regions of the dead.

Liability to be sued; the state of being subjected by law to civil process.

Capable of being sued; subject by law to be called to answer in court.

To persuade.

Suasible.

To assuage.

Spread equally over the surface; uniform; even.

Capable of being persuaded; easily persuaded.

The act of persuading; persuasion; as, moral suasion.

Having power to persuade; persuasive; suasory.

Tending to persuade; suasive.

Sweet; pleasant; delightful; gracious or agreeable in manner; bland.

To make affable or suave.

Sweetly speaking; using agreeable speech.

Sweetness of speech.

Sweetness to the taste.

A subordinate; a subaltern.

The lowest member of a base when divided horizontally, or of a baseboard, pedestal, or the like.

The deepest pedal stop, or the lowest tones of an organ; the fundamental or ground bass.

An acetate containing an excess of the basic constituent.

Moderately acid or sour; as, some plants have subacid juices. A substance moderately acid.

Moderalely acrid or harsh.

Situated beneath the acromial process of the scapula.

To reduce; to subdue.

The act of reducing to any state, as of mixing two bodies combletely.

Moderalely acute.

Somewhat hooked or curved.

An under or subordinate advocate.

Beneath the sky; in the open air; specifically (Geol.), taking place on the earth's surface, as opposed to subaqueous.

A subordinate agency.

A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business intrusted to the latter.

Unlawful sexual intercourse.

A province; a government, as of a viceroy; also, a subahdar.

A viceroy; a governor of a subah; also, a native captain in the British native army.

The office or jurisdiction of a subahdar.

To aid secretly; to assist in a private manner, or indirectly.

An under almoner.

Inhabiting the somewhat high slopes and summits of mountains, but considerably below the snow line.

A person holding a subordinate position; specifically, a commissioned military officer below the rank of captain.

A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2.

A particular proposition, as opposed to a universal one. See Subaltern, 2.

Subalternate; successive.

Slightly angular.

Under, or at the foot of, the Apennine mountains; -- applied, in geology, to a series of Tertiary strata of the older Pliocene period.

Being under the apex; of or pertaining to the part just below the apex.

Subaqueous.

Being under water, or beneath the surface of water; adapted for use under water; submarine; as, a subaqueous helmet.

Situated under the arachnoid membrane.

Approximately arctic; belonging to a region just without the arctic circle.

Having a figure resembling that of a bow; somewhat curved or arched.

The ancient custom of betrothing by the bestowal, on the part of the man, of marriage gifts or tokens, as money, rings, or other presents, upon the woman.

Situated under the arytenoid cartilage of the larynx.

Beneath the stars or heavens; terrestrial.

Somewhat astringent.

A hypothetical component of a chemical atom, on the theory that the elements themselves are complex substances; -- called also atomicule.

To understand or supply in an ellipsis.

The act of understanding, or supplying, something not expressed; also, that which is so understood or supplied.

Situated under the axilla, or armpit.

Near the base.

An under beadle.

Of or pertaining to the subbrachians.

A division of soft-finned fishes in which the ventral fins are situated beneath the pectorial fins, or nearly so.

One of the Subbrachiales.

A race or strain differing in certain characters from the parent breed; an incipient breed.

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the bronchi; as, the subbronchial air sacs of birds.

Smaller than the caliber of a firearm.

A carbonate containing an excess of the basic constituent.

Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Carboniferous formations underlying the proper coal measures. It was a marine formation characterized in general by beds of limestone. The Subcarboniferous period or formation.

United with, or containing, carbon in less than the normal proportion.

Situated under or beneath a cartilage or cartilages. Partially cartilaginous.

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the tail; as, the subcaudal, or chevron, bones.

Being beneath the heavens; as, subcelestial glories.

A cellar beneath another story wholly or partly underground; usually, a cellar under a cellar.

Under the center.

An underchanter; a precentor's deputy in a cathedral; a succentor.

Nearly circular.

One of the natural groups, more important than an order, into which some classes are divided; as, the angiospermous subclass of exogens.

Situated under the clavicle, or collar bone; as, the subclavian arteries.

Having an imperfect or interrupted columnar structure.

An under committee; a part or division of a committee.

Not fully compressed; partially or somewhat compressed.

Slightly concave.

Partially conformable.

Slightly conical.

Situated under the conjunctiva.

Occurring without the possibility or the fact of an attendant consciousness; -- said of states of the soul.

The state or quality of being subconscious; a state of mind in which perception and other mental processes occur without distinct consciousness.

A subordinate constellation.

A contract under, or subordinate to, a previous contract.

Contracted after a former contract.

One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.

A subcontrary proposition; a proposition inferior or contrary in a lower degree.

Situated under the coracoid process of the scapula; as, the subcoracoid dislocation of the humerus.

Somewhat cordate; somewhat like a heart in shape.

Situated under a horny part or layer. Partially horny.

A subcostal muscle.

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the cranium; facial.

Occurring beneath a crust or scab; as, a subcrustaceous cicatrization.

Imperfectly crystallized.

Having a form resembling that of a colter, or straight on one side and curved on the other.

Situated under the skin; hypodermic.

Situated under the cuticle, or scarfskin.