Part 112
The common North American species are Acipenser sturio of the Atlantic coast region, A. transmontanus of the Pacific coast, and A. rubicundus of the Mississippi River and its tributaries. In Europe, the common species is Acipenser sturio, and other well-known species are the sterlet and the huso. The sturgeons are included in the order Chondrostei. Their body is partially covered by five rows of large, carinated, bony plates, of which one row runs along the back. The tail is heterocercal. The toothless and protrusile mouth is beneath the head, and has four barbels in front.
Shovel-nosed sturgeon. (Zoöl.) See Shovelnose (d).
||Stu`ri*o"nes (?), n. pl. [NL., from LL. sturio. See Sturgeon.] ||(Zoöl.) An order of fishes including the sturgeons.
Stu`ri*o"ni*an (?), n. (Zoöl.) One of the family of fishes of which the sturgeon is the type.
Sturk (?), n. See Stirk. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Stur"noid (?), a. [L. sturnus a starling + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the starlings.
Sturt (?), v. t. [Cf. Start, v. i.] To vex; to annoy; to startle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Sturt, n. 1. Disturbance; annoyance; care. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] "Sturt and care." J. Rolland.
2. (Mining) A bargain in tribute mining by which the tributor profits. Raymond.
Stur"tion (?), n. A corruption of Nasturtion.
Stut (?), v. i. To stutter. [Obs.] Skelton.
Stut"ter (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Stuttered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stuttering.] [Freq. of stut, OE. stoten; probably of Dutch or Low German origin; cf. D. & LG. stotteren, G. stottern, D. stooten to push, to strike; akin to G. stossen, Icel. stauta, Sw. stöta, Dan. stöde, Goth. stautan, L. tundere, Skr. tud to thrust. Cf. Contuse, Obtuse.] To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.
Trembling, stuttering, calling for his confessor.
Macaulay.
Stut"ter, n. 1. The act of stuttering; a stammer. See Stammer, and Stuttering.
2. One who stutters; a stammerer. [Obs.] Bacon.
Stut"ter*er (?), n. One who stutters; a stammerer.
Stut"ter*ing, n. The act of one who stutters; -- restricted by some physiologists to defective speech due to inability to form the proper sounds, the breathing being normal, as distinguished from stammering.
Stut"ter*ing, a. Apt to stutter; hesitating; stammering. -- Stut"ter*ing*ly, adv.
Sty (?), n.; pl. Sties (&?;). [Written also stigh.] [AS. stigu, fr. stgan to rise; originally, probably, a place into which animals climbed or went up. √164. See Sty, v. i., and cf. Steward.] 1. A pen or inclosure for swine.
2. A place of bestial debauchery.
To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty.
Milton.
Sty, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stying (?).] To shut up in, or as in, a sty. Shak.
Sty, v. i. [OE. stien, sti&?;en, AS. stgan to rise; akin to D. stijgen, OS. & OHG. stgan, G. steigen, Icel. stga, Sw. stiga, Dan. stige, Goth. steigan, L. vestigium footstep, Gr. &?; to walk, to go, Skr. stigh to mount. Cf. Distich, Stair steps, Stirrup, Sty a boil, a pen for swine, Vestige.] To soar; to ascend; to mount. See Stirrup. [Obs.]
With bolder wing shall dare aloft to sty, To the last praises of this Faery Queene.
Spenser.
Sty, n. [For older styan, styanye, understood as sty on eye, AS. stgend (sc. eáge eye), properly, rising, or swelling (eye), p. p. of stgan to rise. See Sty, v. i.] (Med.) An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid. [Written also stye.]
Sty"an (?), n. See Sty, a boil. [R.] De quincey.
Sty"ca (?), n. [LL., fr. AS. stic, styc, stycge.] An anglo-Saxon copper coin of the lowest value, being worth half a farthing. S. M. Leake.
Sty"cer*in (?), n. [Styryl + glycerin.] (Chem.) A triacid alcohol, related to glycerin, and obtained from certain styryl derivatives as a yellow, gummy, amorphous substance; -- called also phenyl glycerin.
Stye, n. See Sty, a boil.
Styg"i*al (?), a. Stygian. [R.] Skelton.
Styg"i*an (?), a. [L. Stygius, fr. Styx, Stygis, Gr. &?;, &?;, the Styx.] Of or pertaining to the river Styx; hence, hellish; infernal. See Styx.
At that so sudden blaze, the Stygian throng Bent their aspect.
Milton.
Sty`la*gal*ma"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; a column + &?; an image.] (Arch.) Performing the office of columns; as, Atlantes and Caryatides are stylagalmaic figures or images. [Written also stylogalmaic.]
Sty"lar (?), a. See Stilar.
||Sty*las"ter (?), n. [NL., from Gr. &?; pillar + &?; star.] (Zoöl.) ||Any one of numerous species of delicate, usually pink, calcareous ||hydroid corals of the genus Stylaster.
Style (?), n. [OE. stile, F. style, Of. also stile, L. stilus a style or writing instrument, manner or writing, mode of expression; probably for stiglus, meaning, a pricking instrument, and akin to E. stick. See Stick, v. t., and cf. Stiletto. The spelling with y is due to a supposed connection with Gr. &?; a pillar.] 1. An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax.
2. Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use. Specifically: --
(a) A pen; an author's pen. Dryden.
(b) A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
(c) A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
(d) (Zoöl.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects.
(e) [Perhaps fr. Gr. &?; a pillar.] The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon.
(f) [Probably fr. Gr. &?; a pillar.] (Bot.) The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil.
3. Mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or written; especially, such use of language in the expression of thought as exhibits the spirit and faculty of an artist; choice or arrangement of words in discourse; rhetorical expression.
High style, as when that men to kinges write.
Chaucer.
Style is the dress of thoughts.
Chesterfield.
Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.
Swift.
It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work.
I. Disraeli.
4. Mode of presentation, especially in music or any of the fine arts; a characteristic of peculiar mode of developing in idea or accomplishing a result.
The ornamental style also possesses its own peculiar merit.
Sir J. Reynolds.
5. Conformity to a recognized standard; manner which is deemed elegant and appropriate, especially in social demeanor; fashion.
According to the usual style of dedications.
C. Middleton.
6. Mode or phrase by which anything is formally designated; the title; the official designation of any important body; mode of address; as, the style of Majesty.
One style to a gracious benefactor, another to a proud, insulting foe.
Burke.
7. (Chron.) A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
Style is Old or New. The Old Style follows the Julian manner of computing the months and days, or the calendar as established by Julius Cæsar, in which every fourth year consists of 366 days, and the other years of 365 days. This is about 11 minutes in a year too much. Pope Georgy XIII. reformed the calendar by retrenching 10 days in October, 1582, in order to bring back the vernal equinox to the same day as at the time of the Council of Nice, a. d. 325. This reformation was adopted by act of the British Parliament in 1751, by which act 11 days in September, 1752, were retrenched, and the third day was reckoned the fourteenth. This mode of reckoning is called New Style, according to which every year divisible by 4, unless it is divisible by 100 without being divisible by 400, has 366 days, and any other year 365 days.
Style of court, the practice or manner observed by a court in its proceedings. Ayliffe.
Syn. -- Diction; phraseology; manner; course; title. See Diction.
Style, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Styled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Styling.] To entitle; to term, name, or call; to denominate. "Styled great conquerors." Milton.
How well his worth and brave adventures styled.
Dryden.
Syn. -- To call; name; denominate; designate; term; characterize.
Sty"let (?), n. [F., dim. of style; cf. It. stiletto. See Stiletto.] A small poniard; a stiletto.
2. (Surg.) (a) An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. (b) A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape and prevent clogging.
3. (Zoöl.) Any small, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ; as, the caudal stylets of certain insects; the ventral stylets of certain Infusoria.
Sty*lif"er*ous (?), a. [Style + -ferous.] (Bot.) Bearing one or more styles.
Sty"li*form (?), a. [Style + - form: cf. F. styliforme.] Having the form of, or resembling, a style, pin, or pen; styloid.
Styl"ish (?), a. Having style or artistic quality; given to, or fond of, the display of style; highly fashionable; modish; as, a stylish dress, house, manner. -- Styl"ish*ly, adv. -- Styl"ish*ness, n.
Styl"ist, n. One who is a master or a model of style, especially in writing or speaking; a critic of style.
Distinguished as a stylist, for ease.
Fitzed. Hall.
Sty*lis"tic (?), a. Of or pertaining to style in language. [R.] "Stylistic trifles." J. A. Symonds.
The great stylistic differences in the works ascribed to him [Wyclif].
G. P. Marsh.
Sty"lite (?), n. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?; a pillar.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of anchorites in the early church, who lived on the tops of pillars for the exercise of their patience; -- called also pillarist and pillar saint.
Sty"lo- (?). A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the styloid process of the temporal bone; as, stylohyal, stylomastoid, stylomaxillary.
Sty"lo*bate (?), n. [L. stylobates, stylobata, Gr. &?;; &?; a pillar + &?; one that treads, fr. &?; to go.] (Arch.) The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See Sub-base.
Sty`lo*glos"sal (?), a. [Stylo- + glossal.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to styloid process and the tongue.
Sty"lo*graph (?), n. A stylographic pen.
Sty`lo*graph"ic (?), a. 1. Of or pertaining to stylography; used in stylography; as, stylographic tablets.
2. Pertaining to, or used in, stylographic pen; as, stylographic ink.
Stylographic pen, a pen with a conical point like that of a style, combined with a reservoir for supplying it with ink. -- Stylographic pencil, a pencil used in stylography.
Sty`lo*graph"ic*al (?), a. Same as Stylographic, 1. -- Sty`lo*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.
Sty*log"ra*phy (?), n. [Style + -graphy.] A mode of writing or tracing lines by means of a style on cards or tablets.
Sty`lo*hy"al (?), n. [Stylo- + the Gr. letter &?;.] (Anat.) A segment in the hyoidean arch between the epihyal and tympanohyal.
Sty`lo*hy"oid (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the styloid process and the hyoid bone.
Sty"loid (?), a. [Style + - oid: cf. F. styloïde, Gr. &?;.] 1. Styliform; as, the styloid process.
2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the styloid process.
Styloid process (Anat.), a long and slender process from the lower side of the temporal bone of man, corresponding to the tympanohyal and stylohyal of other animals.
Sty`lo*mas"toid (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone.
Sty`lo*max"il*la*ry (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the styloid process and the maxilla.
Sty*lom"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. &?; column + -meter.] An instrument for measuring columns.
||Sty*lom"ma*ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a pillar + &?;, &?;, the ||eye.] Same as Stylommatophora.
||Sty*lom`ma*toph"o*ra (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; column + &?; eye + ||&?; to bear.] (Zoöl.) A division of Pulmonata in which the eyes are ||situated at the tips of the tentacles. It includes the common land ||snails and slugs. See Illust. under Snail.
Sty*lom`ma*toph"o*rous (?), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to Stylommatophora.
||Sty`lo*po"di*um (?), n.; pl. Stylopodia (#). [NL. See Style, and ||Podium.] (Bot.) An expansion at the base of the style, as in ||umbelliferous plants.
||Sty"lops (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a pillar + &?;, &?;, the eye.] ||(Zoöl.) A genus of minute insects parasitic, in their larval state, ||on bees and wasps. It is the typical genus of the group Strepsiptera, ||formerly considered a distinct order, but now generally referred to ||the Coleoptera. See Strepsiptera.
||Sty"lus (?), n. [L. stylus, or better stilus.] An instrument for ||writing. See Style, n., 1.
Styph"nate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of styphnic acid.
Styph"nic (?), a. [Gr. (spurious) sty`fein to contract.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a yellow crystalline astringent acid, (NO2)3.C6H.(OH)2, obtained by the action of nitric acid on resorcin. Styphnic acid resembles picric acid, but is not bitter. It acts like a strong dibasic acid, having a series of well defined salts.
Styp"tic (?), a. [L. stypticus, Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to contract.] Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent. [Written also stiptic.]
Styptic weed (Bot.), an American leguminous herb (Cassia occidentalis) closely related to the wild senna.
Styp"tic, n. (Med.) A styptic medicine.
Styp"tic*al (?), a. Styptic; astringent.
Styp*tic"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. stypticité.] The quality or state of being styptic; astringency.
Styr"a*cin (?), n. [See Styrax.] (Chem.) A white crystalline tasteless substance extracted from gum storax, and consisting of a salt of cinnamic acid with cinnamic alcohol.
Sty"rax (?), n. [L. styrax, storax, Gr. &?;. See Storax.] 1. (Bot.) A genus of shrubs and trees, mostly American or Asiatic, abounding in resinous and aromatic substances. Styrax officinalis yields storax, and S. Benzoin yields benzoin.
2. Same as Storax.
Sty"rol (?), n. [Styrax + L. oleum oil.] (Chem.) See Styrolene.
Sty"ro*lene (?), n. (Chem.) An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C8H8, obtained by the distillation of storax, by the decomposition of cinnamic acid, and by the condensation of acetylene, as a fragrant, aromatic, mobile liquid; -- called also phenyl ethylene, vinyl benzene, styrol, styrene, and cinnamene.
Sty"rone (?), n. (Chem.) A white crystalline substance having a sweet taste and a hyacinthlike odor, obtained by the decomposition of styracin; -- properly called cinnamic, or styryl, alcohol.
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Sty"ryl (?), n. [Styrax + - yl.] (Chem.) A hypothetical radical found in certain derivatives of styrolene and cinnamic acid; -- called also cinnyl, or cinnamyl.
Stythe (?), n. (Mining) Choke damp.
Styth"y (?), n. & v. See Stithy.
||Styx (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;.] (Class. Myth.) The principal river of ||the lower world, which had to be crossed in passing to the regions of ||the dead.
Su`a*bil"i*ty (?), n. (Law) Liability to be sued; the state of being subjected by law to civil process.
Su"a*ble (?), a. (Law) Capable of being sued; subject by law to be called to answer in court. Story.
Suade (?), v. t. [L. suadere.] To persuade. [Obs.]
Suad"i*ble (?), a. [L. suadibilis.] Suasible. [Obs.] Wyclif (James iii. 17).
Suage (?), v. t. To assuage. [Obs.] Dryden.
Su"ant (?), a. [Cf. Sue to pursue.] Spread equally over the surface; uniform; even. [Written also suent.] [Local, U.S. & Prov. Eng.] -- Su"ant*ly, adv. [Local, U.S. & Prov. Eng.]
Sua"si*ble (?), a. [L. suadere, suasum, to persuade.] Capable of being persuaded; easily persuaded.
Sua"sion (?), n. [L. suasio, fr. suadere, suasum, to advise, persuade, fr. suadus persuading, persuasive; akin to suavis sweet: cf. OF. suasion. See Suave, and cf. Dissuade, Persuade.] The act of persuading; persuasion; as, moral suasion.
Sua"sive (?), a. Having power to persuade; persuasive; suasory. South. "Genial and suasive satire." Earle. -- Sua"sive*ly, adv.
Sua"so*ry (?), a. [L. suasorius: cf. F. suasoire.] Tending to persuade; suasive.
Suave (?), a. [L. suavis sweet, pleasant: cf. F. suave. See Sweet, and cf. Suasion.] Sweet; pleasant; delightful; gracious or agreeable in manner; bland. -- Suave"ly, adv.
Suav"i*fy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suavified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Suavifying (?).] [Suave + -fy.] To make affable or suave.
Sua*vil"o*quent (?), a. [L. suaviloquens; suavis sweet + loquens, p. pr. of loqui to speak.] Sweetly speaking; using agreeable speech. [R.]
Sua*vil"o*quy (?), n. [L. suaviloquium.] Sweetness of speech. [R.]
Suav"i*ty (?), n. [L. suavitas: cf. F. suavité.] 1. Sweetness to the taste. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
2. The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; softness; pleasantness; gentleness; urbanity; as, suavity of manners; suavity of language, conversation, or address. Glanvill.
Sub- (?). [L. sub under, below; akin to Gr. &?;, Skr. upa to, on, under, over. Cf. Hypo-, Super- .] 1. A prefix signifying under, below, beneath, and hence often, in an inferior position or degree, in an imperfect or partial state, as in subscribe, substruct, subserve, subject, subordinate, subacid, subastringent, subgranular, suborn. Sub- in Latin compounds often becomes sum- before m, sur before r, and regularly becomes suc-, suf- , sug-, and sup- before c, f, g, and p respectively. Before c, p, and t it sometimes takes form sus- (by the dropping of b from a collateral form, subs-).
2. (Chem.) A prefix denoting that the ingredient (of a compound) signified by the term to which it is prefixed,is present in only a small proportion, or less than the normal amount; as, subsulphide, suboxide, etc. Prefixed to the name of a salt it is equivalent to basic; as, subacetate or basic acetate. [Obsoles.]
Sub, n. A subordinate; a subaltern. [Colloq.]
Sub*ac"id (?), a. [L. subacidus. See Sub-, Acid.] Moderately acid or sour; as, some plants have subacid juices. -- n. A substance moderately acid.
Sub*ac"rid (?), a. Moderalely acrid or harsh.
Sub`a*cro"mi*al (?), a. (Anat.) Situated beneath the acromial process of the scapula.
Sub*act" (?), v. t. [L. subactus, p. p. of subigere to subdue; sub under + agere to lead, bring.] To reduce; to subdue. [Obs.] Bacon.
Sub*ac"tion (?), n. [Cf. L. subactio a working up, discipline.] The act of reducing to any state, as of mixing two bodies combletely. [Obs.] Bacon.
Sub`a*cute" (?), a. Moderalely acute.
Sub`a*dun"cate (?), a. (Zoöl.) Somewhat hooked or curved.
Sub*ad"vo*cate (?), n. An under or subordinate advocate.
Sub`a*ë"ri*al (?), a. Beneath the sky; in the open air; specifically (Geol.), taking place on the earth's surface, as opposed to subaqueous.
Sub*a"gen*cy (?), n. A subordinate agency.
Sub*a"gent (?), n. (Law) A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business intrusted to the latter. Bouvier. Chitty.
Sub*ag`i*ta"tion (?), n. [L. subagitatio, fr. subagitare to lie with illicity.] Unlawful sexual intercourse. [Obs.]
||Su"bah (s"b), n. [Per. & Hind. sbah.] A province; a government, as of ||a viceroy; also, a subahdar. [India]
Su"bah*dar (?), n. [Per. & Hind. sbah-dr, Per. sbah a province + dr holding, keeping.] A viceroy; a governor of a subah; also, a native captain in the British native army. [India]
{ Su"bah*dar`y (?), Su"bah*ship (?), } n. The office or jurisdiction of a subahdar.
Sub*aid" (?), v. t. To aid secretly; to assist in a private manner, or indirectly. [R.] Daniel.
Sub*al"mon*er (?), n. An under almoner.
Sub*al"pine (?), a. [L. subalpinus.] (Bot. & Zoöl.) Inhabiting the somewhat high slopes and summits of mountains, but considerably below the snow line.
Sub*al"tern (?), a. [F. subalterne, LL. subalternus, fr. L. sub under + alter the one, the other of two. See Alter.] 1. Ranked or ranged below; subordinate; inferior; specifically (Mil.), ranking as a junior officer; being below the rank of captain; as, a subaltern officer.
2. (Logic) Asserting only a part of what is asserted in a related proposition.
Subaltern genus. (Logic) See under Genus.
Sub*al"tern (?), n. 1. A person holding a subordinate position; specifically, a commissioned military officer below the rank of captain.
2. (Logic) A subaltern proposition. Whately.
Sub`al*ter"nant (?), n. (Logic) A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2. Whately.
Sub`al*ter"nate (?), a. 1. Succeeding by turns; successive.
2. Subordinate; subaltern; inferior.
All their subalternate and several kinds.
Evelyn.
Sub`al*ter"nate, n. (Logic) A particular proposition, as opposed to a universal one. See Subaltern, 2.
Sub*al"ter*na`ting (?), a. Subalternate; successive.
Sub*al"ter*na`tion (?), n. The state of being subalternate; succession of turns; subordination.
Sub*an"gu*lar (?), a. Slightly angular.
Sub*ap"en*nine (?), a. Under, or at the foot of, the Apennine mountains; -- applied, in geology, to a series of Tertiary strata of the older Pliocene period.
Sub*ap"ic*al (?), a. Being under the apex; of or pertaining to the part just below the apex.
Sub`a*qua"ne*ous (?), a. [L. subaquaneus; sub + aqua water.] Subaqueous. [Obs.]
{ Sub`a*quat"ic (?), Sub*a"que*ous (?), } a. 1. Being under water, or beneath the surface of water; adapted for use under water; submarine; as, a subaqueous helmet.
2. (Geol.) Formed in or under water; as, subaqueous deposits.
{ Sub`a*rach"noid (?), Sub*ar`ach*noid"al (?), } a. (Anat.) Situated under the arachnoid membrane.
Sub*arc"tic (?), a. Approximately arctic; belonging to a region just without the arctic circle.
{ Sub*ar"cu*ate (?), Sub*ar"cu*a`ted (?), } a. Having a figure resembling that of a bow; somewhat curved or arched.
Sub`ar*ra"tion (?), n. [Pref. sub- + L. arra, arrha, earnest money. See Earnest a pledge.] The ancient custom of betrothing by the bestowal, on the part of the man, of marriage gifts or tokens, as money, rings, or other presents, upon the woman.
Sub`a*ryt"e*noid (?), a. (Anat.) Situated under the arytenoid cartilage of the larynx.
Sub*as"tral (?), a. Beneath the stars or heavens; terrestrial. Bp. Warburton.
Sub`as*trin"gent (?), a. Somewhat astringent.
Sub*at"om (?), n. (Chem.) A hypothetical component of a chemical atom, on the theory that the elements themselves are complex substances; -- called also atomicule.
Sub*aud" (?), v. t. [L. subaudire, subauditum; sub under + audire to hear.] To understand or supply in an ellipsis. [R.]
Sub`au*di"tion (?), n. [L. subauditio.] The act of understanding, or supplying, something not expressed; also, that which is so understood or supplied. Trench.
Sub*ax"il*la*ry (?), a. 1. (Anat.) Situated under the axilla, or armpit.
2. (Bot.) Placed under the axil, or angle formed by the branch of a plant with the stem, or a leaf with the branch.
Sub*ba"sal (?), a. (Zoöl.) Near the base.
Sub"-base` (?), n. (Arch.) The lowest member of a base when divided horizontally, or of a baseboard, pedestal, or the like.
Sub"-bass`, n. (Mus.) The deepest pedal stop, or the lowest tones of an organ; the fundamental or ground bass. [Written also sub-base.] Ayliffe.
Sub*bea"dle (?), n. An under beadle.
Sub*brach"i*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to the subbrachians.
||Sub*brach`i*a"les (?), n. pl. [NL. See Sub-, and Brachial.] (Zoöl.) A ||division of soft-finned fishes in which the ventral fins are situated ||beneath the pectorial fins, or nearly so.
Sub*brach"i*an (?), n. [Pref. sub- + brachium.] (Zoöl.) One of the Subbrachiales.
Sub"breed` (?), n. (Zoöl.) A race or strain differing in certain characters from the parent breed; an incipient breed.
Sub*bron"chi*al (?), a. (Anat.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the bronchi; as, the subbronchial air sacs of birds.
Sub*cal"i*ber (?), a. Smaller than the caliber of a firearm. [Written also subcalibre.]
Subcaliber projectile, a projectile having a smaller diameter than the caliber of the arm from which it is fired, and to which it is fitted by means of a sabot. Knight.
Sub*car`bon*if"er*ous (?), a. (Geol.) Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Carboniferous formations underlying the proper coal measures. It was a marine formation characterized in general by beds of limestone. -- n. The Subcarboniferous period or formation.
Sub*car"bu*ret`ed (?), a. (Chem.) United with, or containing, carbon in less than the normal proportion. [Written also subcarburetted.] [Obsoles.]
Sub*car`ti*lag"i*nous (?), a. (Anat.) (a) Situated under or beneath a cartilage or cartilages. (b) Partially cartilaginous.
Sub*cau"dal (?), a. (Anat.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the tail; as, the subcaudal, or chevron, bones.
Sub`ce*les"tial (?), a. Being beneath the heavens; as, subcelestial glories. Barrow.
Sub*cen"tral (?), a. 1. Under the center.