Subnarcotic adjective (Medicine) Moderately narcotic.

Subnasal adjective (Anat.) Situated under the nose; as, the subnasal point, or the middle point of the inferior border of the anterior nasal aperture.

Subnascent adjective [ Latin subnascens , present participle of subnasci to grow under; sub under + nasci to be born.] Growing underneath. [ R.] Evelyn.

Subnect transitive verb [ Latin subnectere , subnextum ; sub under + nectere to tie.] To tie or fasten beneath; to join beneath. [ R.] Pope.

Subnex transitive verb [ See Subnect .] To subjoin; to subnect. [ Obsolete] Holland.

Subnormal noun (Geom.) That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.

Subnotation noun [ Latin subnotatio a signing underneath, from subnotare to subscribe; sub under + notare to note or mark.] A rescript. Bouvier.

Subnotochordal adjective (Anat.) Situated on the ventral side of the notochord; as, the subnotochordal rod.

Subnuvolar adjective [ Prefix sub + Italian nuvola cloud: confer Latin subnubilus somewhat cloudy.] Under the clouds; attended or partly covered or obscured by clouds; somewhat cloudy. [ R. & Poetic]

Subnuvolar lights of evening sharply slant.

Milnes.

Subobscurely adverb Somewhat obscurely or darkly. [ R.] Donne.

Subobtuse adjective Partially obtuse.

Suboccipital adjective (Anat.) Situated under, or posterior to, the occiput; as, the suboccipital , or first cervical, nerve.

Suboctave, Suboctuple adjective Containing one part of eight; having the ratio of one to eight. Bp. Wilkins.

Subocular adjective [ Prefix sub + ocular : confer Latin subocularis .] (Anat.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the eye.

Subofficer noun [ Prefix sub + officer : confer French sous-officer .] An under or subordinate officer.

Subopercular adjective (Anat.) Situated below the operculum; pertaining to the suboperculum. -- noun The suboperculum.

Suboperculum noun [ New Latin See Sub- , Operculum .] (Anat.) The lower opercular bone in fishes.

Suborbicular, Suborbiculate adjective Almost orbiculate or orbicular.

Suborbital, Suborbitar adjective (Anat.) Situated under or below the orbit.

Suborder noun (Nat. Hist.) A division of an order; a group of genera of a little lower rank than an order and of greater importance than a tribe or family; as, cichoraceous plants form a suborder of Compositæ.

Subordinacy noun [ See Subordinate .] The quality or state of being subordinate, or subject to control; subordination, as, to bring the imagination to act in subordinacy to reason. Spectator.

Subordinance, Subordinancy noun [ Prefix sub + Latin ordinans , present participle of ordinare . See Subordinate , adjective ] Subordinacy; subordination. [ Obsolete] Dr. H. More. Sir W. Temple.

Subordinary noun (Her.) One of several heraldic bearings somewhat less common than an ordinary. See Ordinary .

» Different writers name different bearings as subordinaries, but the bar , bend , sinister , pile , inescutcheon bordure , gyron , and quarter , are always considered subordinaries by those who do not class them as ordinaries.

Subordinate adjective [ Prefix sub + Latin ordinatus , past participle of ordinare to set in order, to arrange. See Ordain .]
1. Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.

The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished.

Woodward.

2. Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like.

It was subordinate , not enslaved, to the understanding.

South.

Subordinate noun One who stands in order or rank below another; -- distinguished from a principal . Milton.

Subordinate transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Subordinated ; present participle & verbal noun Subordinating .]
1. To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another.

2. To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason.

-- Sub*or"di*nate*ly , adverb -- Sub*or"di*nate*ness , noun

Subordination noun [ Confer French subordination .]
1. The act of subordinating, placing in a lower order, or subjecting.

2. The quality or state of being subordinate or inferior to an other; inferiority of rank or dignity; subjection.

Natural creature having a local subordination .

Holyday.

3. Place of inferior rank.

Persons who in their several subordinations would be obliged to follow the example of their superiors.

Swift.

Subordinative adjective Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination; used to introduce a subordinate sentence; as, a subordinative conjunction.

Suborn transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Suborned ; present participle & verbal noun Suborning .] [ French suborner , Latin subornare ; sub under, secretly + ornare to furnish, provide, equip, adorn. See Ornament .]
1. (Law) To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken. Sir W. O. Russell.

2. To procure privately, or by collusion; to procure by indirect means; to incite secretly; to instigate.

Thou art suborned against his honor.

Shak.

Those who by despair suborn their death.

Dryden.

Subornation noun [ French subornation .]
1. (Law) The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury. Blackstone.

2. The sin or offense of procuring one to do a criminal or bad action, as by bribes or persuasion.

Foul subornation is predominant.

Shak.

The sort of chicanery attending the subornation of managers in the Leibnitz controversy.

De Quinsey.

Suborner noun One who suborns or procures another to take, a false oath; one who procures another to do a bad action.

Suboval adjective Somewhat oval; nearly oval.

Subovate adjective Nearly in the form of an egg, or of the section of an egg, but having the inferior extremity broadest; nearly ovate.

Subovated adjective Subovate. [ R.]

Suboxide noun (Chemistry) An oxide containing a relatively small amount of oxygen, and less than the normal proportion; as, potassium suboxide , K ₄ O.

Subpœna noun [ New Latin , from Latin sub under + poena punishment. See Pain .] (Law) A writ commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty; the process by which a defendant in equity is commanded to appear and answer the plaintiff's bill. [ Written also subpena .]