Subulipalp noun [ Latin subula an awl + English palp .] (Zoology) One of a group of carabid beetles having slender palpi.

Subumbonal adjective (Zoology) Beneath or forward of the umbos of a bivalve shell.

Subumbrella noun (Zoology) The integument of the under surface of the bell, or disk-shaped body, of a jellyfish.

Subundation noun [ Prefix sub- + Latin unda a wave.] A flood; a deluge. [ Obsolete] Huloet.

Subungual adjective Under the nail or hoof.

Suburb noun [ Latin suburbium ; sub under, below, near + urbs a city. See Urban .]
1. An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the suburbs ; a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris. "In the suburbs of a town." Chaucer.

[ London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous.

Hallam.

2. Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment. "The suburbs . . . of sorrow." Jer. Taylor.

The suburb of their straw-built citadel.

Milton.

Suburb roister , a rowdy; a loafer. [ Obsolete] Milton.

Suburban adjective [ Latin suburbanus .] Of or pertaining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city. " Suburban taverns." Longfellow.

Suburban villas, highway-side retreats, . . .
Delight the citizen.

Cowper.

Suburban noun One who dwells in the suburbs.

Suburbed adjective Having a suburb or suburbs on its outer part.

Suburbial, Suburbian adjective Suburban. [ Obsolete] " Suburbial fields." Warton. " Suburbian muse." Dryden.

Suburbicarian, Suburbicary adjective [ Late Latin suburbicarius , equiv. to Latin suburbanus : confer French suburbicaire . See Suburban .] Being in the suburbs; -- applied to the six dioceses in the suburbs of Rome subject to the pope as bishop of Rome.

The pope having stretched his authority beyond the bounds of his suburbicarian precincts.

Barrow.

Suburethral adjective (Anat.) Situated under the urethra, or under its orifice.

Subvaginal adjective (Anat.) Situated under or inside a sheath or vaginal membrane; as, the subvaginal , or subdural, spaces about the optic nerve.

Subvariety noun ; plural -ties A subordinate variety, or a division of a variety.

Subvene intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Subvened ; present participle & verbal noun Subvening .] [ Prefix sub- + Latin venire to come. See Subvention .] To come under, as a support or stay; to happen.

A future state must needs subvene to prevent the whole edifice from falling into ruin.

Bp. Warburton.

Subventaneous adjective [ Prefix sub- + Latin ventus wind.] Produced by the wind. [ Obsolete]

Subvention noun [ French, from Late Latin subventio , from Latin subvenire to come up to one's assistance, to assist. See Souvenir , and confer Subvene .]
1. The act of coming under. "The subvention of a cloud." Stackhouse.

2. The act of relieving, as of a burden; support; aid; assistance; help.

3. A government aid or bounty.

Subvention transitive verb To subventionize.

Subventionize transitive verb To come to the aid of; to subsidize; to support.

Subventitious adjective Helping; aiding; supporting. Urquhart.

Subverse transitive verb [ Latin subversus , past participle of subvertere . See Subvert .] To subvert. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Subversion noun [ Latin subversio : confer French subversion . See Subvert .] The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution.

The subversion [ by a storm] of woods and timber . . . through my whole estate.

Evelyn.

Laws have been often abused to the oppression and subversion of that order they were intended to preserve.

Rogers.

Subversionary adjective Promoting destruction.

Subversive adjective [ Confer French subversif .] Tending to subvert; having a tendency to overthrow and ruin.

Lying is a vice subversive of the very ends and design of conversation.

Rogers.

Subvert transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Subverted ; present participle & verbal noun Subverting .] [ Latin subvertere , subversum ; sub under + vertere to turn: confer French subvertir . See Verse .]
1. To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.

These are his substance, sinews, arms, and strength,
With which he yoketh your rebellious necks,
Razeth your cities, and subverts your towns.

Shak.

This would subvert the principles of all knowledge.

Locke.

2. To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound. 2 Tim. iii. 14.

Syn. -- To overturn; overthrow; destroy; invert; reverse; extinguish.

Subvert intransitive verb To overthrow anything from the foundation; to be subversive.

They have a power given to them like that of the evil principle, to subvert and destroy.

Subvertant adjective (Her.) Reversed. [ R.]

Subvertebral adjective (Anat.) Situated beneath, or on the ventral side of, the vertebral column; situated beneath, or inside of, the endoskeleton; hypaxial; hyposkeletal.

Subverter noun One who, or that which, subverts; an overthrower. Sir T. More.

Subvertible adjective That may be subverted.

Subvitalized adjective Imperfectly vitalized; having naturally but little vital power or energy.

Subvocal adjective & noun Same as Subtonic .

Subway noun An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted.

Subworker noun A subordinate worker or helper. South.

Subzonal adjective (Anat.) Situated under a zone, or zona; -- applied to a membrane between the zona radiata and the umbilical vesicle in the mammal embryo.

Subzygomatic adjective (Anat.) Situated under the zygoma or zygomatic process.

Succade noun [ Latin succus , sucus , juice: confer French succade a sugarbox. Confer Sucket .]
1. A sweetmeat. [ Obsolete] Holland.

2. plural (Com.) Sweetmeats, or preserves in sugar, whether fruit, vegetables, or confections. Blakely.

Succade gourd . (Botany) Same as Vegetable marrow , under Vegetable .

Succedane noun A succedaneum. [ Obsolete]

Succedaneous adjective [ Latin succedaneus . See Succeed .] Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another. Sir T. Browne.

Succedaneum noun ; plural Succedanea . [ New Latin See Succedaneous .] One who, or that which, succeeds to the place of another; that which is used for something else; a substitute ; specifically (Medicine) , a remedy used as a substitute for another.

In lieu of me, you will have a very charming succedaneum , Lady Harriet Stanhope.

Walpole.

Succeed transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Succeeded ; present participle & verbal noun Succeeding .] [ Latin succedere , successum ; sub under + cedere to go, to go along, approach, follow, succeed: confer French succéder . See Cede , and confer Success .]
1. To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds summer.

As he saw him nigh succeed .

Spenser.

2. To fall heir to; to inherit. [ Obsolete & R.] Shak.

3. To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.

Destructive effects . . . succeeded the curse.

Sir T. Browne.

4. To support; to prosper; to promote. [ R.]

Succeed my wish and second my design.

Dryden.

Succeed intransitive verb
1. To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; -- often with to .

If the father left only daughters, they equally succeeded to him in copartnership.

Sir M. Hale.

Enjoy till I return
Short pleasures; for long woes are to succeed !

Milton.

2. Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.

No woman shall succeed in Salique land.

Shak.

3. To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve. Shak.

4. To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful; as, he succeeded in his plans; his plans succeeded .

It is almost impossible for poets to succeed without ambition.

Dryden.

Spenser endeavored it in Shepherd's Kalendar; but neither will it succeed in English.

Dryden.

5. To go under cover. [ A latinism. Obsolete]

Will you to the cooler cave succeed !

Dryden.

Syn. -- To follow; pursue. See Follow .

Succeedant adjective (Her.) Succeeding one another; following.

Succeeder noun A successor. Shak. Tennyson.

Succeeding noun The act of one who, or that which, succeeds; also, that which succeeds, or follows after; consequence. Shak.

Succentor noun [ Late Latin , an accompanier in singing, from succinere to sing, to accompany; sub under, after + canere to sing.] (Eccl.) A subchanter.

Success noun [ Latin successus : confer French succès . See Succeed .]
1. Act of succeeding; succession. [ Obsolete]

Then all the sons of these five brethren reigned
By due success .

Spenser.

2. That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.

Men . . . that are like to do that, that is committed to them, and to report back again faithfully the success .

Bacon.

Perplexed and troubled at his bad success
The tempter stood.

Milton.

3. The favorable or prosperous termination of anything attempted; the attainment of a proposed object; prosperous issue.

Dream of success and happy victory!

Shak.

Or teach with more success her son
The vices of the time to shun.

Waller.

Military successes , above all others, elevate the minds of a people.

Atterbury.

4. That which meets with, or one who accomplishes, favorable results, as a play or a player. [ Colloq.]

Successary noun Succession. [ Obsolete]

My peculiar honors, not derived
From successary , but purchased with my blood.

Beau. & Fl.

Successful adjective Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise.

Welcome, nephews, from successful wars.

Shak.

Syn. -- Happy; prosperous; fortunate; auspicious; lucky. See Fortunate .

-- Suc*cess"ful*ly , adverb -- Suc*cess"ful*ness , noun

Succession noun [ Latin successio : confer French succession . See Succeed .]
1. The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters.

2. A series of persons or things according to some established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings, or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology.

He was in the succession to an earldom.

Macaulay.

3. An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent. "A long succession must ensue." Milton.

4. The power or right of succeeding to the station or title of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon the office, rank, position, etc., held ny another; also, the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of succeeding, to a throne.

You have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark.

Shak.

The animosity of these factions did not really arise from the dispute about the succession .

Macaulay.

5. The right to enter upon the possession of the property of an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an established order.

6. The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir. [ R.] Milton.

Apostolical succession . (Theol.) See under Apostolical . -- Succession duty , a tax imposed on every succession to property, according to its value and the relation of the person who succeeds to the previous owner. [ Eng.] -- Succession of crops . (Agriculture) See Rotation of crops , under Rotation .