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

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

Submersed.

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

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.

Imperfectly metallic; as, a submetallic luster.

To be subservient; to be useful.

Subordinate; subservient.

To supply; to afford; to subminister.

The act of subministering.

Submissive; humble; obsequious.

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.

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

In a submissive manner; with a submission.

Submissiveness.

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

One who submits.

To suggest; to prompt.

Suggestion; prompting.

Situated under a mucous membrane.

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

Situated underneath a muscle or muscles.

Moderately narcotic.

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

Growing underneath.

To tie or fasten beneath; to join beneath.

To subjoin; to subnect.

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

A rescript.

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

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

Somewhat obscurely or darkly.

Partially obtuse.

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

Containing one part of eight; having the ratio of one to eight.

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

An under or subordinate officer.

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

The lower opercular bone in fishes.

Almost orbiculate or orbicular.

Situated under or below the orbit.

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.

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

Subordinacy; subordination.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Somewhat oval; nearly oval.

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

Subovate.

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

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

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

Somewhat pellucid; nearly pellucid.

See Subpoena.

Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.

Situated under the periosteum.

Situated under the peritoneal membrane.

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

Situated under the pleural membrane.

Situated under the podophyllous tissue of the horse's foot.

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

Required or done under penalty.

Situated below the poles.

Approximately polygonal; somewhat or almost polygonal.

Somewhat prehensile; prehensile in an inferior degree.

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

Situated under, or posterior to, the pubic bones.

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

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

Somewhat pyriform.

Nearly or approximately square; almost square.

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

Almost quinquefid; nearly quinquefid.

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

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

An assistant restor.

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

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

Surreptitious.

Surreptitious.

Somewhat rigid or stiff.

Watered or wet beneath; well-watered.

To put in the place of another; to substitute.

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.

Somewhat rotund.

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

Moderately saline or salt.

A basic salt. See the Note under Salt.

Derision; mockery.

Situated beneath the scapula; infrascapular; as, the subscapular muscle.

Capable of being subscribed.

To sign one's name to a letter or other document.

One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing.

Anything written below.

The act of subscribing.

Of or pertaining to a subscription, or signature.

To follow closely, or so as to overtake; to pursue.

Following in a train or succession.

One of the stalls of the lower range where there are two ranges. See Illust. of Stall.

The sensible or leading note, or sharp seventh, of any key; subtonic.

Deeper than the reach of the senses.

Having the ratio of one to seven.

The act or state of following; -- opposed to precedence.

Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely; as, subsequent events; subsequent ages or years; a period long subsequent to the foundation of Rome.

At a later time; afterwards.

Situated under a serous membrane.

To be subservient or subordinate; to serve in an inferior capacity.

The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility.

Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling.

In a subservient manner.

Having the ratio of one to six; as, a subsextuple proportion.

To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.

The act or process of subsiding.

In a subsidiary manner; so as to assist.

One who, or that which, contributes aid or additional supplies; an assistant; an auxiliary.