Being under the sun; hence, terrestrial; earthly; mundane.
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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.
Subsultory.
Bounding; leaping; moving by sudden leaps or starts.
A starting, twitching, or convulsive motion.
Capable of being subsumed.
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.
The act of subsuming, or of including under another.
Relating to, or containing, a subsumption.
The part of the axis contained between the ordinate and tangent drawn to the same point in a curve.
Being or living under Tartarus; infernal.
A space under a roof; a tabernacle; a dwelling.
Under the roof or eaves; within doors.
One who rents a tenement, or land, etc., of one who is also a tenant; an undertenant.
To extend under, or be opposed to; as, the line of a triangle which subtends the right angle; the chord subtends an arc.
A line subtending, or stretching across; a chord; as, the subtense of an arc.
Slightly tepid.
Somewhat terete.
Running under or beneath.
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.
A cave or room under ground.
Subterranean.
Being or lying under the surface of the earth; situated within the earth, or under ground; as, subterranean springs; a subterraneous passage.
A place under ground; a subterrany.
Subterranean. A subterranean place.
Subterraneous.
Subterranean.
Situated under the optic thalamus.
Thin; not dense or gross; rare; as, subtile air; subtile vapor; a subtile medium.
To make thin or rare.
The quality or state of being subtile; subtility; subtlety.
Subtilty.
The act of making subtile.
To refine in argument; to make very nice distinctions.
One who subtilizes.
The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; as, the subtility of air or light.
Sly in design; artful; cunning; insinuating; subtile; -- applied to persons; as, a subtle foe.
The quality or state of being subtle; subtlety.
The quality or state of being subtle, or sly; cunning; craftiness; artfulness.
In a subtle manner; slyly; artfully; cunningly.
A subtonic sound or element; a vocal consonant, as b, d, g, n, etc.; a subvocal.
Nearly torrid.
To withdraw, or take away, as a part from the whole; to deduct; as, subtract 5 from 9, and the remainder is 4.
One who subtracts.
The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.
Tending, or having power, to subtract.
The sum or number to be subtracted, or taken from another (the minuend) to find the difference.
Not perfectly translucent.
Not perfectly transparent.
The public officer who has charge of a subtreasury.
A subordinate treasury, or place of deposit; as, the United States subtreasury at New York.
Nearly, but not perfectly, triangular.
A division of a tribe; a group of genera of a little lower rank than a tribe.
Approaching the form of a three-sided pyramid; as, the subtrihedral crown of a tooth.
Containing a third, or one part to three.
Expressed by the cube root; -- said especially of ratios.
Nearly tropical.
To place under; to insert.
Somewhat turriculate.
An under tutor.
Deviating somewhat from the type of a species, genus, or other group; slightly aberrant.
Very narrow, and tapering gradually to a fine point from a broadish base; awl-shaped; linear.
A division of insects having slender or subulate antennae. The dragon flies and May flies are examples.
Subulate.
One of a group of carabid beetles having slender palpi.
Beneath or forward of the umbos of a bivalve shell.
The integument of the under surface of the bell, or disk-shaped body, of a jellyfish.
A flood; a deluge.
Under the nail or hoof.
An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris.
One who dwells in the suburbs.
Having a suburb or suburbs on its outer part.
Suburban.
Being in the suburbs; -- applied to the six dioceses in the suburbs of Rome subject to the pope as bishop of Rome.
Situated under the urethra, or under its orifice.
Situated under or inside a sheath or vaginal membrane; as, the subvaginal, or subdural, spaces about the optic nerve.
A subordinate variety, or a division of a variety.
To come under, as a support or stay; to happen.
Produced by the wind.
To subventionize.
To come to the aid of; to subsidize; to support.
Helping; aiding; supporting.
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