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 cardiac pericardium.

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.

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.

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.

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

To sign beneath; to subscribe.

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

A basic silicate.

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

Real being; existence.

Subsistence.

Having real being; as, a subsistent spirit.

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

To turn up the subsoil of.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Having no substance; unsubstantial.

Substantial; firm.

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

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

To make substantial.

In a substantial manner; in substance; essentially.

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

Essential parts.

To make to exist; to make real.

The act of substantiating or proving; evidence; proof.

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

To substantivize.

In a substantive manner; in substance; essentially.

The quality or state of being substantive.

To convert into a substantive; as, to substantivize an adjective.

See Substyle.

Any atom, group, or radical substituted for another, or entering a molecule in place of some other part which is removed.

To put in the place of another person or thing; to exchange.

Exchanged; put in the place of another.

The act of substituting or putting one person or thing in the place of another; as, the substitution of an agent, attorney, or representative to act for one in his absense; the substitution of bank notes for gold and silver as a circulating medium.

Of or pertaining to substitution; standing in the place of another; substituted.

Of or pertaining to substitution; substitutional.

Tending to afford or furnish a substitute; making substitution; capable of being substituted.

To subtract; to withdraw.

Subtraction; deduction.

One who subtracts.

To strew or lay under anything.

That which is laid or spread under; that which underlies something, as a layer of earth lying under another; specifically (Agric.), the subsoil.

To build beneath something; to lay as the foundation.

Underbuilding; the foundation, or any preliminary structure intended to raise the lower floor or basement of a building above the natural level of the ground.

Same as Substruction.

Pertaining to the substyle.

A right line on which the style, or gnomon, of a dial is erected; being the common section of the face of the dial and a plane perpendicular to it passing through the style.

A sulphate with an excess of the base.

A nonacid compound consisting of one equivalent of sulphur and more than one equivalent of some other body, as a metal.