Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SUB-AL'TERN, n.

A subordinate officer in an army or military body. It is applied to officers below the rank of captain.

SUB-AL-TERN'ATE, a. [supra.]

Successive; succeeding by turns. – Hooker.

SUB-AL-TERN-A'TION, n.

1. State of inferiority or subjection.
2. Act of succeeding by course.

SUB-AP'EN-NINE, a.

Under or at the foot of the Apennine mountains.

SUB-A-QUAT'IC, or SUB-A'QUE-OUS, a. [L. sub and aqua, water.]

Being under water, or beneath the surface of water. – Darwin.

SUB-AR-RA'TION, n. [Low L. subarrare.]

The ancient custom of betrothing. – Wheatly.

SUB-AS'TRAL, a. [sub and astral.]

Beneath the stars or heavens; terrestrial. – Warburton.

SUB-AS-TRIN'GENT, a.

Astringent in a small degree.

SUB-AU-DI'TION, n. [L. subauditio; sub and audio, to hear.]

The act of understanding something not expressed. – Richardson.

SUB-AX'IL-LA-RY, a. [L. sub and axilla, the arm-pit.]

Placed under the exit or angle formed by the branch of a plant with the stem, or by a leaf with the branch. – Darwin.

SUB-BASE, n.

In music, the deepest pedal stop or the lowest notes of an organ.

SUB-BEA-DLE, n. [sub and beadle.]

An inferior or under beadle.

SUB-BRIG-A-DIER, n.

An officer in the horse guards, who ranks as cornet. – Encyc.

SUB-CAR-BU-RET-ED, a.

Consisting of a greater number of equivalents of the base than of the carbon.

SUB-CE-LES'TIAL, a. [sub and celestial.]

Being beneath the heavens; as, sub-celestial glories. – Glanville.

SUB-CEN'TRAL, a.

Being under the center. – Say.

SUB-CHANT-ER, n. [sub and chanter.]

An underchanter; a deputy of the precentor of a cathedral. – Johnson.

SUB-CLA'VI-AN, a. [L. sub and clavis, a key.]

Situated under the clavicle or collar bone; as, the subclavian arteries.

SUB-COM-MIT'TEE, n. [sub and committee.]

An under committee; a part or division of a committee.

SUB-CON-STEL-LA'TION, n.

A subordinate constellation. – Brown.

SUB-CON-TRACT'ED, a. [sub and contracted.]

Contracted after a former contract. – Shak.

SUB-CON'TRA-RY, a. [sub and contrary.]

Contrary in an inferior degree. In geometry, when two similar triangles are so placed as to have a common angle at their vertex, and yet their bases not parallel. – Cyc.

SUB-CORD'ATE, a. [L. sub and cor, the heart.]

In shape somewhat like a heart. – Martyn.

SUB-COS'TAL, a. [L. sub and costa, a rib.]

The subcostal muscles are the internal intercostal muscles. – Winslow. Cyc.

SUB-CRYS'TAL-INE, a.

Imperfectly crystalized. – Buffon.