Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SUB-DUC-ED, pp.

Withdrawn; taken away.

SUB-DUC-ING, ppr.

Withdrawing; subtracting by arithmetical operation.

SUB-DUC'TION, n.

1. The act of taking away or withdrawing. – Hale.
2. Arithmetical subtraction. – Hale.

SUB-DUE, v.t. [subdu'; This is a compound word, and the latter component part is contracted from some word in Class Db or Dg.]

1. To conquer by force or the exertion of superior power and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion. Thus Cesar subdued the Gauls; Augustus subdued Egypt; the English subdued Canada. Subduing implies conquest or vanquishing, but it implies also more permanence of subjection to the conquering power, than either these words. I will subdue all thine enemies. – 1 Chron. xvii.
2. To oppress; to crush; to sink; to overpower so as to disable from further resistance. Nothing could have subdu'd nature / To such a lowness, but his unkind daughters. – Shak. If aught were worthy to subdue / The soul of man. – Milton.
3. To tame; to break by conquering a refractory temper or evil passions; to render submissive; as, to subdue a stubborn child.
4. To conquer; to reduce to mildness; as, to subdue the temper or passions.
5. To overcome by persuasion or other mild means; as, to subdue opposition by argument or entreaties.
6. To overcome; to conquer; to captivate; as by charms.
7. To soften; to melt; to reduce to tenderness; as, to subdue ferocity by tears.
8. To overcome; to overpower and destroy the force of; as medicines subdue a fever.
9. To make mellow; to break; as land; also, to destroy, as weeds.

SUB-DUED, pp.

Conquered and reduced to subjection; oppressed; crushed; tamed; softened.

SUB-DUE-MENT, n.

Conquest. – Shak.

SUB-DU'ER, n.

1. One who conquers and brings into subjection; a tamer. – Spenser.
2. That which subdues or destroys the force of. – Arbuthnot.

SUB-DU'ING, ppr.

Vanquishing and reducing to subjection; crushing; destroying the power of resistance; softening.

SUB'DU-PLE, a. [L. sub and duplus, double.]

Containing one part of two. – Wilkins.

SUB-DU'PLI-CATE, a. [sub and duplicate.]

Having the ratio of the square roots. – Cyc.

SUB-E'QUAL, a. [sub and equal.]

Nearly equal. – Martyn.

SU'BER-ATE, n. [L. suber, cork.]

A salt formed by the suberic acid in combination with a base. – Chimistry.

SU'BER-IC, a.

Pertaining to cork, or extracted from it; as, suberic acid. – Chimistry.

SU'BE-RIN, n. [L. suber, the cork tree.]

The substance called cork, in a state of purity. It is supposed to be a peculiar vegetable proximate principle. Cork is the epidermis of the trunk and branches of the Quercus Suber, the cork tree, of the south of Europe.

SUB'ER-OSE, a. [L. sub and erosus, gnawed.]

In botany, having the appearance of being gnawed; appearing as if a little eaten or gnawed. – Martyn.

SUB'ER-OUS, a. [from L. suber, cork.]

Corky; soft and elastic.

SUB-FUSC', a. [L. subfuscus; sub and fuscus.]

Duskish; moderately dark; brownish; tawny. – Tatler.

SUB-GE'NUS, n.

A subordinate genus.

SUB-GLOB'U-LAR, a.

Having a form approaching to globular. – Say.

SUB-GLU-MA'CEOUS, a.

Somewhat glumaceous. – Lindley.

SUB-GRAN'U-LAR, a.

Somewhat granular.

SUB-HAS-TA'TION, n. [L. sub hasta, under the spear.]

A public sale or auction, so called from the Roman practice. – Burnet.

SUB-HORN-BLEND'IC, a.

Applied to rocks containing disseminated hornblend. – Percival's Geol.

SUB-HY-DRO-SULPH'U-RET, n.

A compound of sulphareted hydrogen with a less number of equivalents of the base than of the sulphureted hydrogen.

SUB-IN-DI-CA'TION, n. [L. sub and indico.]

The act of indicating by signs. Barrow.