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Sublimation

The act or process of subliming, or the state or result of being sublimed.

Sublime

To pass off in vapor, with immediate condensation; specifically, to evaporate or volatilize from the solid state without apparent melting; -- said of those substances, like arsenic, benzoic acid, etc., which do not exhibit a liquid form on heating, except under increased pressure.

Sublimed

Having been subjected to the process of sublimation; hence, also, purified.

Sublimeness

The quality or state of being sublime; sublimity.

Subliminal

Existing in the mind, but below the surface or threshold of consciousness; that is, existing as feeling rather than as clear ideas.

Sublimity

The quality or state of being sublime (in any sense of the adjective).

Sublineation

A mark of a line or lines under a word in a sentence, or under another line; underlining.

Sublingua

A process or fold below the tongue in some animals.

Sublingual

Situated under the tongue; as, the sublingual gland. Of or pertaining to the sublingual gland; as, sublingual salvia.

Sublition

The act or process of laying the ground in a painting.

Sublobular

Situated under, or at the bases of, the lobules of the liver.

Sublumbar

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the lumbar region of the vertebral column.

Sublunary Sublunar

Situated beneath the moon; hence, of or pertaining to this world; terrestrial; earthly.

Submammary

Situated under the mammae; as, submammary inflammation.

Submarine

A submarine boat; a ship that can travel under the surface of the water. Most such ships are ships of war, as part of a navy, but submarines are also used for oceanic research. Also called sub and (from the German U-Boot) U-boat. a submarine torpedo boat; -- called specif. submergible submarine when capable of operating at various depths and of traveling considerable distances under water, and submersible submarine when capable of being only partly submerged, i.e., so that the conning tower, etc., is still above water. The latter type and most of the former type are submerged as desired by regulating the amount of water admitted to the ballast tanks and sink on an even keel; some of the former type effect submersion while under way by means of horizontal rudders, in some cases also with admission of water to the ballast tanks.

submarine sandwich

A large sandwich on an elongated roll, usually incompletely cut into two halves, filed with various cold cuts, meatballs, lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, olives, etc., and spiced variously, and often having oil or other dressing applied; called also hoagie, hero, hero sandwich, grinder, sub, submarine, poor boy, and Italian sandwich. A single such sandwich may consitute a substantial meal. Very large variants are sometimes prepared for social gatherings and cut into pieces for individual consumption.

Submaxillary

Situated under the maxilla, or lower jaw; inframaxillary; as, the submaxillary gland. Of or pertaining to submaxillary gland; as, submaxillary salvia.

Submedian

Next to the median (on either side); as, the submedian teeth of mollusks.

Submediant

The sixth tone of the scale; the under mediant, or third below the keynote; the superdominant.

Submental

Situated under the chin; as, the submental artery.

Submentum

The basal part of the labium of insects. It bears the mentum.

Submerge

To plunge into water or other fluid; to be buried or covered, as by a fluid; to be merged; hence, to be completely included.

Submergence

The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; submersion.

Submersed

Being or growing under water, as the leaves of aquatic plants.

Submersion

The act of submerging, or putting under water or other fluid, or of causing to be overflowed; the act of plunging under water, or of drowning.

Submetallic

Imperfectly metallic; as, a submetallic luster.

Submiss

Submissive; humble; obsequious.

Submission

The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another; obedience; compliance.

Submissive

Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble.

Submissly

In a submissive manner; with a submission.

Submit

To yield one's person to the power of another; to give up resistance; to surrender.

Submultiple

Of or pertaining to a submultiple; being a submultiple; as, a submultiple number; submultiple ratio.

Subnasal

Situated under the nose; as, the subnasal point, or the middle point of the inferior border of the anterior nasal aperture.

Subnect

To tie or fasten beneath; to join beneath.

Subnormal

That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.

Subnotochordal

Situated on the ventral side of the notochord; as, the subnotochordal rod.

Subnuvolar

Under the clouds; attended or partly covered or obscured by clouds; somewhat cloudy.

Suboccipital

Situated under, or posterior to, the occiput; as, the suboccipital, or first cervical, nerve.

Subocular

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the eye.

Subopercular

Situated below the operculum; pertaining to the suboperculum. The suboperculum.

Suborder

A division of an order; a group of genera of a little lower rank than an order and of greater importance than a tribe or family; as, cichoraceous plants form a suborder of Compositae.

Subordinacy

The quality or state of being subordinate, or subject to control; subordination, as, to bring the imagination to act in subordinacy to reason.

Subordinary

One of several heraldic bearings somewhat less common than an ordinary. See Ordinary.

Subordinate

To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another.

Subordination

The act of subordinating, placing in a lower order, or subjecting.

Subordinative

Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination; used to introduce a subordinate sentence; as, a subordinative conjunction.

Suborn

To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken.

Subornation

The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury.

Suborner

One who suborns or procures another to take, a false oath; one who procures another to do a bad action.

Subovate

Nearly in the form of an egg, or of the section of an egg, but having the inferior extremity broadest; nearly ovate.

Suboxide

An oxide containing a relatively small amount of oxygen, and less than the normal proportion; as, potassium suboxide, K4O.

Subpeduncular

Situated beneath the peduncle; as, the subpeduncular lobe of the cerebellum.

Subpedunculate

Supported on, or growing from, a very short stem; having a short peduncle.

Subpentangular

Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.

Subpetiolar

Concealed within the base of the petiole, as the leaf buds of the plane tree.

Subpoena

To serve with a writ of subpoena; to command attendance in court by a legal writ, under a penalty in case of disobedience.

Subpolygonal

Approximately polygonal; somewhat or almost polygonal.

Subprehensile

Somewhat prehensile; prehensile in an inferior degree.

Subprior

The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.

Subpubic

Situated under, or posterior to, the pubic bones.

Subpulmonary

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the lungs.

Subpurchaser

A purchaser who buys from a purchaser; one who buys at second hand.

Subquadrate

Nearly or approximately square; almost square.

Subquadruple

Containing one part of four; in the ratio of one to four; as, subquadruple proportion.

Subquintuple

Having the ratio of one to five; as, subquintuple proportion.

Subreader

An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon.

Subreligion

A secondary religion; a belief or principle held in a quasi religious veneration.

Subreption

The act of obtaining a favor by surprise, or by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.

Subrogate

To put in the place of another; to substitute.

Subrogation

The act of subrogating. The substitution of one person in the place of another as a creditor, the new creditor succeeding to the rights of the former; the mode by which a third person who pays a creditor succeeds to his rights against the debtor.

Subsacral

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the sacrum.

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