Webster's Dictionary 1913

11152

Submissive

Sub‐mis″sive (?), a. 1. Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble.Not at his feet submissive in distress,Creature so fair his reco...

11153

Submissly

Sub‐miss″ly (?), adv. In a submissive manner; with a submission. Jer. Taylor.

11154

Submissness

Sub‐miss″ness, n. Submissiveness.

11155

Submit

Sub‐mit″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Submitted (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Submitting.] [L. submittere; sub under + mittere to send: cf. F. soumettre. See Missile.] 1. To let down; to lower...

11156

Submit (2)

Sub‐mit″, v. i. 1. To yield one's person to the power of another; to give up resistance; to surrender.The revolted provinces presently submitted. C. Middleton.2. To yield one's ...

11157

Submitter

Sub‐mit″ter (?), n. One who submits. Whitlock.

11158

Submonish

Sub‐mon″ish (?), v. t. [L. submonere. See Summon, and -ish.] To suggest; to prompt. “The submonishing inclinations of my senses.” T. Granger.

11159

Submonition

Sub′mo‐ni″tion (?), n. [LL. submonitio.] Suggestion; prompting. T. Granger.

11160

Submucous

Sub‐mu″cous (?), a.(Anat.) Situated under a mucous membrane.

11161

Submultiple

Sub‐mul″ti‐ple (?), n.(Math.) A number or quality which is contained in another an exact number of times, or is an aliquot part of it; thus, 7 is the submultiple of 56, being co...

11162

Submultiple (2)

Sub‐mul″ti‐ple, a.(Math.) Of or pertaining to a submultiple; being a submultiple; as, a submultiple number; submultiple ratio.

11163

Submuscular

Sub‐mus″cu‐lar (?), a. Situated underneath a muscle or muscles.

11164

Subnarcotic

Sub′nar‐cot″ic (?), a.(Med.) Moderately narcotic.

11165

Subnasal

Sub‐na″sal (?), a.(Anat.) Situated under the nose; as, the subnasal point, or the middle point of the inferior border of the anterior nasal aperture.

11166

Subnascent

Sub‐nas″cent (?), a. [L. subnascens, p. pr. of subnasci to grow under; sub under + nasci to be born.] Growing underneath. Evelyn.

11167

Subnect

Sub‐nect″ (?), v. t. [L. subnectere, subnextum; sub under + nectere to tie.] To tie or fasten beneath; to join beneath. Pope.

11168

Subnex

Sub‐nex″ (?), v. t. [See Subnect.] To subjoin; to subnect. Holland.

11169

Subnormal

Sub‐nor″mal (?), n.(Geom.) That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.

11170

Subnotation

Sub′no‐ta″tion (?), n. [L. subnotatio a signing underneath, fr. subnotare to subscribe; sub under + notare to note or mark.] A rescript. Bouvier.

11171

Subnotochordal

Sub‐no′to‐chor″dal (?), a.(Anat.) Situated on the ventral side of the notochord; as, the subnotochordal rod.

11172

Subnuvolar

Sub‐nu″vo‐lar (?), a. [Pref. sub + It. nuvola cloud: cf. L. subnubilus somewhat cloudy.] Under the clouds; attended or partly covered or obscured by clouds; somewhat cloudy.Subn...

11173

Subobscurely

Sub′ob‐scure″ly (?), adv. Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.

11174

Subobtuse

Sub′ob‐tuse″ (?), a. Partially obtuse.

11175

Suboccipital

Sub′oc‐cip″i‐tal (?), a.(Anat.) Situated under, or posterior to, the occiput; as, the suboccipital, or first cervical, nerve.

11176

Suboctave

{ Sub‐oc″tave (?), Sub‐oc″tu‐ple (?), } a. Containing one part of eight; having the ratio of one to eight. Bp. Wilkins.

11177

Subocular

Sub‐oc″u‐lar (?), a. [Pref. sub + ocular: cf. L. subocularis.] (Anat.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the eye.

11178

Subofficer

Sub‐of″fi‐cer (?), n. [Pref. sub + officer: cf. F. sous-officer.] An under or subordinate officer.