Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: SUB-AL'TERN – SUB-CRYS'TAL-INE
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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.
- State of inferiority or subjection.
- 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.
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.
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.