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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.

Substantivize

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

Substituent

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

Substitute

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

Substitution

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.

Substitutional

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

Substitutive

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

Substratum

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

Substruct

To build beneath something; to lay as the foundation.

Substruction

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.

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.

Subsulphide

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

Subsultory

Bounding; leaping; moving by sudden leaps or starts.

Subsultus

A starting, twitching, or convulsive motion.

Subsume

To take up into or under, as individual under species, species under genus, or particular under universal; to place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include under something else.

Subsumption

The act of subsuming, or of including under another.

Subtangent

The part of the axis contained between the ordinate and tangent drawn to the same point in a curve.

Subtectacle

A space under a roof; a tabernacle; a dwelling.

Subtenant

One who rents a tenement, or land, etc., of one who is also a tenant; an undertenant.

Subtend

To extend under, or be opposed to; as, the line of a triangle which subtends the right angle; the chord subtends an arc.

Subtense

A line subtending, or stretching across; a chord; as, the subtense of an arc.

Subterfuge

That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion.

Subterraneous Subterranean

Being or lying under the surface of the earth; situated within the earth, or under ground; as, subterranean springs; a subterraneous passage.

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