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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.

Subsalt

A basic salt. See the Note under Salt.

Subscribe

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

Subscriber

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

Subscriptive

Of or pertaining to a subscription, or signature.

Subsecute

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

Subsellium

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

Subsemitone

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

Subsequent

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.

Subserve

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

Subserviency Subservience

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

Subservient

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

Subsextuple

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

Subside

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

Subsidiary

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

Subsidize

To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line.

Subsidy

Support; aid; cooperation; esp., extraordinary aid in money rendered to the sovereign or to a friendly power.

Subsign

To sign beneath; to subscribe.

Subsignation

The act of writing the name under something, as for attestation.

Subsist

To support with provisions; to feed; to maintain; as, to subsist one's family.

Subsistent

Having real being; as, a subsistent spirit.

Subsizar

An under sizar; a student of lower rank than a sizar.

Subsolary

Being under the sun; hence, terrestrial; earthly; mundane.

Subspecies

A group somewhat lessdistinct than speciesusually are, but based on characters more important than those which characterize ordinary varieties; often, a geographical variety or race.

Subsphenoidal

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.

Subspherical

Nearly spherical; having a figure resembling that of a sphere.

Subspinous

Subvertebral. Situated beneath a spinous process, as that of the scapula; as, subspinous dislocation of the humerus.

Substance

To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich.

Substantial

Belonging to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life.

Substantiality

The quality or state of being substantial; corporiety; materiality.

Substantialness

The quality or state of being substantial; as, the substantialness of a wall or column.

Substantival

Of or pertaining to a substantive; of the nature of substantive.

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