Subtonic (n.) A subtonic sound or element; a vocal consonant, as b, d, g, n, etc.; a subvocal.
Subtonic (n.) The seventh tone of the scale, or that immediately below the tonic; -- called also subsemitone.
Subtorrid (a.) Nearly torrid.
Subtracted (imp. & p. p.) of Subtract
Subtracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subtract
Subtract (v. t.) To withdraw, or take away, as a part from the whole; to deduct; as, subtract 5 from 9, and the remainder is 4.
Subtracter (n.) One who subtracts.
Subtracter (n.) The subtrahend.
Subtraction (n.) The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.
Subtraction (n.) The taking of a lesser number or quantity from a greater of the same kind or denomination; an operation for finding the difference between two numbers or quantities.
Subtraction (n.) The withdrawing or withholding from a person of some right to which he is entitled by law.
Subtractive (a.) Tending, or having power, to subtract.
Subtractive (a.) Having the negative sign, or sign minus.
Subtrahend (n.) The sum or number to be subtracted, or taken from another.
Subtranslucent (a.) Not perfectly translucent.
Subtransparent (a.) Not perfectly transparent.
Subtreasurer (n.) The public officer who has charge of a subtreasury.
Subtreasuries (pl. ) of Subtreasury
Subtreasury (n.) A subordinate treasury, or place of deposit; as, the United States subtreasury at New York.
Subtriangular (a.) Nearly, but not perfectly, triangular.
Subtribe (n.) A division of a tribe; a group of genera of a little lower rank than a tribe.
Subtrihedral (a.) Approaching the form of a three-sided pyramid; as, the subtrihedral crown of a tooth.
Subtriple (a.) Containing a third, or one part to three.
Subtriplicate (a.) Expressed by the cube root; -- said especially of ratios.
Subtropical (a.) Nearly tropical.
Subtruded (imp. & p. p.) of Subtrude
Subtruding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subtrude
Subtrude (v. t.) To place under; to insert.
Subturriculate (a.) Somewhat turriculate.
Subtutor (n.) An under tutor.
Subtypical (a.) Deviating somewhat from the type of a species, genus, or other group; slightly aberrant.
Subulate (a.) Alt. of Subulated
Subulated (a.) Very narrow, and tapering gradually to a fine point from a broadish base; awl-shaped; linear.
Subulicornes (n. pl.) A division of insects having slender or subulate antennae. The dragon flies and May flies are examples.
Subuliform (a.) Subulate.
Subulipalp (n.) One of a group of carabid beetles having slender palpi.
Subumbonal (a.) Beneath or forward of the umbos of a bivalve shell.
Subumbrella (n.) The integument of the under surface of the bell, or disk-shaped body, of a jellyfish.
Subundation (n.) A flood; a deluge.
Subungual (a.) Under the nail or hoof.
Suburb (n.) 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.
Suburb (n.) Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment.
Suburban (a.) Of or pertaining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city.
Suburban (n.) One who dwells in the suburbs.
Suburbed (a.) Having a suburb or suburbs on its outer part.
Suburbial (a.) Alt. of Suburbian
Suburbian (a.) Suburban.
Suburbicarian (a.) Alt. of Suburbicary
Suburbicary (a.) Being in the suburbs; -- applied to the six dioceses in the suburbs of Rome subject to the pope as bishop of Rome.
Suburethral (a.) Situated under the urethra, or under its orifice.
Subvaginal (a.) Situated under or inside a sheath or vaginal membrane; as, the subvaginal, or subdural, spaces about the optic nerve.
-ties (pl. ) of Subvariety
Subvariety (n.) A subordinate variety, or a division of a variety.
Subvened (imp. & p. p.) of Subvene
Subvening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subvene
Subvene (v. i.) To come under, as a support or stay; to happen.
Subventaneous (a.) Produced by the wind.
Subvention (n.) The act of coming under.
Subvention (n.) The act of relieving, as of a burden; support; aid; assistance; help.
Subvention (n.) A government aid or bounty.
Subvention (v. t.) To subventionize.
Subventionize (v. t.) To come to the aid of; to subsidize; to support.
Subventitious (a.) Helping; aiding; supporting.
Subverse (v. t.) To subvert.
Subversion (n.) 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.
Subversionary (a.) Promoting destruction.
Subversive (a.) Tending to subvert; having a tendency to overthrow and ruin.
Subverted (imp. & p. p.) of Subvert
Subverting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subvert
Subvert (v. t.) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
Subvert (v. t.) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
Subvert (v. i.) To overthrow anything from the foundation; to be subversive.
Subverant (a.) Reserved.
Subvertebral (a.) Situated beneath, or on the ventral side of, the vertebral column; situated beneath, or inside of, the endoskeleton; hypaxial; hyposkeletal.
Subverter (n.) One who, or that which, subverts; an overthrower.
Subvertible (a.) That may be subverted.
Subvitalized (a.) Imperfectly vitalized; having naturally but little vital power or energy.
Subvocal (a. & n.) Same as Subtonic.
Subway (n.) An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted.
Subworker (n.) A subordinate worker or helper.
Subzonal (a.) Situated under a zone, or zona; -- applied to a membrane between the zona radiata and the umbilical vesicle in the mammal embryo.
Subzigomatic (a.) Situated under the zygoma or zygomatic process.
Succade (n.) A sweetmeat.
Succade (n.) Sweetmeats, or preserves in sugar, whether fruit, vegetables, or confections.
Succedane (n.) A succedaneum.
Succedaneous (a.) Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another.
Succedanea (pl. ) of Succedaneum
Succedaneum (n.) One who, or that which, succeeds to the place of another; that which is used for something else; a substitute
Succedaneum (n.) a remedy used as a substitute for another.
Succeeded (imp. & p. p.) of Succeed
Succeeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Succeed
Succeed (v. t.) To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds summer.
Succeed (v. t.) To fall heir to; to inherit.
Succeed (v. t.) To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
Succeed (v. t.) To support; to prosper; to promote.
Succeed (v. i.) 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.
Succeed (v. i.) Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.
Succeed (v. i.) To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
Succeed (v. i.) To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful; as, he succeeded in his plans; his plans succeeded.
Succeed (v. i.) To go under cover.