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.

To subvert.

The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution.

Promoting destruction.

Tending to subvert; having a tendency to overthrow and ruin.

To overthrow anything from the foundation; to be subversive.

Reversed.

Situated beneath, or on the ventral side of, the vertebral column; situated beneath, or inside of, the endoskeleton; hypaxial; hyposkeletal.

One who, or that which, subverts; an overthrower.

That may be subverted.

Imperfectly vitalized; having naturally but little vital power or energy.

Same as Subtonic.

An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted.

A subordinate worker or helper.

Situated under a zone, or zona; -- applied to a membrane between the zona radiata and the umbilical vesicle in the mammal embryo.

Situated under the zygoma or zygomatic process.

A sweetmeat.

A succedaneum.

Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another.

One who, or that which, succeeds to the place of another; that which is used for something else; a substitute; a remedy used as a substitute for another.

To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; -- often with to.

A successor.

The act of one who, or that which, succeeds; also, that which succeeds, or follows after; consequence.

A subchanter.

Act of succeeding; succession.

Succession.

Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise.

The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters.

Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a regular order; consecutive.

A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially (Eccl.), one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid.

Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer.

In a successive manner.

The quality or state of being successive.

Having no success.

One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; -- correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased king.

Ready to fall; falling.

Producing or conveying sap.

A salt of succinamic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid amide derivative of succinic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, and forming a series of salts.

A salt of succinic acid.

Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.

Pertaining to, or derived from, amber; specif., designating a dibasic acid, C/H/.(CO/H)/, first obtained by the dry distillation of amber. It is found in a number of plants, as in lettuce and wormwood, and is also produced artificially as a white crystalline substance having a slightly acid taste.

A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, C2H4.(CO)2.NH, obtained by treating succinic anhydride with ammonia gas. It is a typical imido acid, and forms a series of salts. See Imido acid, under Imido.

Amber. A garnet of an amber color.

Succinic.

A salt of succinuric acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid amide, analogous to succinamic acid, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance by heating urea with succinic anhydride. It is known also in its salts.

A hypothetical radical characteristic of succinic acid and certain of its derivatives.

Appearing as if a part were cut off at the extremity.

The act of cutting down, as of trees; the act of cutting off.

Aid; help; assistance; esp., assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress.

Capable of being succored or assisted; admitting of relief.

One who affords succor; a helper.

Destitute of succor.

A plant of the genus Cichorium. See Chicory.

Green maize and beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians.

The squeteague.

A female demon or fiend. See Succubus.

Of or pertaining to succuba.

Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one is covered by the base of the next higher leaf, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Plagiochila.

A demon or fiend; especially, a lascivious spirit supposed to have sexual intercourse with the men by night; a succuba. Cf. Incubus.

A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum.

The quality or condition of being succulent; juiciness; as, the succulence of a peach.

Full of juice; juicy.

In a succulent manner.

Succulent; juicy.

To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.

Submissive; yielding.

Serving to aid or help; serving as a chapel of ease; tributary.

The expressed juice of a plant, for medicinal use.

A trot or trotting.

The act of shaking; a shake; esp. (Med.), a shaking of the body to ascertain if there be a liquid in the thorax.

Characterized by a shaking motion, especially an up and down movement, and not merely tremulous oscillation; as, the succussive motion in earthquakes.

Of that kind; of the like kind; like; resembling; similar; as, we never saw such a day; -- followed by that or as introducing the word or proposition which defines the similarity, or the standard of comparison; as, the books are not such that I can recommend them, or, not such as I can recommend; these apples are not such as those we saw yesterday; give your children such precepts as tend to make them better.

Having dorsal vertebrae with long and divided transverse processes; -- applied to certain reptiles.

In a such a manner; so.

The act of drawing with the mouth.

To engage in french kissing (soul-kissing).

A kind of seawan. See Note under Seawan.

See Succotash.

The jurisdiction of a mill, or that extent of ground astricted to it, the tenants of which are bound to bring their grain thither to be ground.