subulate 
xiibiilii. im awl, < sum, sew: see scit'l.] Awl- 
shaped; subuliform; in bot., zoiil., etc., slen- 
der, more or less cylindrical, and tapering to a 
point. See uirl-xlm/n'i/, 2. 
subulated (su'bu-la-ted), a. [< subulate + -erf 2 .] 
Same as subulate. 
subulicorn (su'bu-li-korn), a. and n. [< NL. su- 
InilieoriiiK, < L. s'ubiila, an awl, + eornu, horn.] 
I. a. Having subulate antenna?, as an insect; 
of or pertaining to the Subulicornia. 
II. n. A member of the Subulicornia. 
Subulicornia (sii"lra-li-k6r'ni-a), w. pi. [NL. 
(Latreille, in the form Siibulicornes), < L. su- 
bula, an awl, + cor nit, horn.] In Latreille's 
classification of insects, a division of Neurop- 
tera containing the Odonata of Fabricius, and 
the Epliemeree or Aynathi, or the dragon-flies 
and May-flies. 
subuliform (su'bu-li-form), a. [< L. SVtmla, an 
awl, + forma, form.] Subulate in form ; awl- 
shaped. 
Subulipalpit (su"bu-li-pal'pi), n. pi. [NL., < 
L. subula, an awl, 4- palpus, in mod. sense of 
' palp.'] In Latreille's system, a group of cara- 
boid beetles, distinguished from the Grandi- 
palpi by the subulate form of the outer palp. 
It corresponds to the Bembidiidse. 
subumbonal (sub-um'bo-nal), . Situated un- 
der the umbones of a bivalve shell. 
subumbral (sub-um'bral), n. In Hydrozoa, same 
as subumbrellar. 
subumbrella (sub-um-brel'a), n.; pi. subum- 
brellee (-). [NL., < L. sub',' under, + NL. um- 
brella.'} The internal ventral or oral disk of a 
hydrozoan, as a jellyfish; the muscular layer 
beneath the umbrella or swimming-bell of a hy- 
dromedusan, continuous with the velum, if such 
an acaleph is likened to a woman's parasol, lined, then 
the lining is the subumbrelln, the covering being the urn- 
brella. Compare cut under IHscoph&ra. 
stibumbrellar (sub-um-brel'ar), . [< subum- 
brella + -ai-3.] Of, or having characters of, a 
subumbrella. 
subuncinate (sub-un'si-nat), a. Imperfectly 
uncinate or hooked. 
subundationt (sub-un-da'shon), ?i. [< L. sub, 
under, + undare, overflow: see ound, inunda- 
tion.'] A flood ; a deluge. Huloet. 
subungual, subunguial (sub-ung'gwal, -gwi- 
al), a. Situated under the nail, claw, or hoof. 
Subungulata (sub-ung-gu-la'ta), n. pi [NL., 
neut. pi. of subungulatux : see subungiilate.] 1. 
The Ungulata poiydacti/la, orpolydactyl hoofed 
quadrupeds, including the existing Hyracoidea 
and I'roboscidea, with the fossil Amblypoda, 
having a primitive or archetypical carpus, with 
the os magnum of the distal row of carpal bones 
articulating mainly with the lunare, or with the 
cuneiform, but not with the scaphoid. See Un- 
gulata. 2t. In Illiger's classification (1811), a 
family of rodents whose claws are somewhat 
hoof-like, as the paea, agouti, guinea-pig, and 
capibara. See Caviidx. 
subungulate (sub-ung'gu-lat), a. and . [< NL. 
subungulatus, < L. sub, under. + LL. ungulatus, 
ungulate, < L. ungula, a hoof.] I. a. Hoofed, 
but with several digits, and thus not typically 
ungulate; having the characters of the Subun- 
gulata, 1. See ungulate, and compare solidun- 
ijulate. 
II, . A member of the Subungulata, 1, as the 
elephant or the hyrax. 
suburb (sub'erb), n. and a. [< ME. suburb, sub- 
urbe, < OF. suburbe, usually in pi. suburbes, = 
Sp. Pg. suburbia, < L. suburbium, an outlying 
part of a city, a suburb, < sub, under, near, + 
urbs, city: see urban.'] I, n. 1. An outlying 
part of a city or town ; a part outside of the city 
boundaries but adjoining them: often used in 
the plural to signify loosely some part near a 
city: as, a garden situated in the suburbs of 
London. The form suburbs was formerly often 
used as a singular. 
"In the suburbes of a toun," quod he, 
" Lurking in hernes and in lanes blynde." 
Chaucer, Prol. to Canon's Yeoman's Tale, 1. 104. 
From which Northward is the Market-place and St. 
Nicolas' s Church, from whence for a good way shoots out 
a Suburbs to the North-east, . . . and each Suburbs has 
its particular Church. 
Defoe, Tour through Great Britain, III. 213. (Dames.) 
A small part only spreads itself on to Bua where it be- 
gins to climb the hills. . . . This outlying part, which 
contains two churches, may pass as a suburb, a Peraia. 
E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 179. 
2. The confines; the outskirts. 
The suburb of their straw-built citadel. 
Milton, P. L., 1. 773. 
0036 
This life of mortal breath 
Is but a suburb of the life elysian, 
Whose portal we call Death. 
LongfeUme, Resignation. 
Il.t a. Suburban ; suited to the suburbs, or 
to the less well regulated parts of a city. 
Now, if I can but hold him up to his height, as it is 
happily begun, it will do well for a suburb humour; we 
may hap have a match with the city, and play him for 
forty pound. B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, i. 2. 
A low humour, not tinctured with urbanity ; fitted to 
the tastes of the inferior people who usually reside in the 
suburbs. 
Whalley, Note at "humour" in the above passage. 
Some great man sure that 's asham'd of his kindred ; per- 
haps some Suburbe Justice, that sits o' the skirts o' the 
City, and lives by 't. Brome, Sparagus Garden, ii. 8. 
suburban (sub-er'ban), . and n. [= Sp. Pg. 
It. suburbano; < L. suburbanus, situated near 
the city (of Rome), < sub, under, + urbs, city. 
Of. suburb.] I. a. Pertaining to, inhabiting, or 
being in the suburbs of a city. 
The old ballad of King Christian 
Shouted from suburban taverns. 
Longfellow, To an Old Danish Song-book. 
II. H. One who dwells in the suburbs of a 
city. 
suburbanism(sub-er'ban-izm), 11. [(suburban 
+ -ism.'] The character or state of being sub- 
urban. Mrs. Humphry Ward, Robert Elsmere, 
II. xi. 
suburbed (sub'erbd), a. [< suburb + -co?.] 
Having a suburb. [Rare.] 
Bottreaux Castle, . . . suburbed with a poore market 
town. Jt. Carew, Survey of Cornwall, fol. 120. 
suburbialt (sub-er'bi-al), a. [< L. suburbium, 
suburb (see suburb), +"-al.] Same as suburban. 
T. Warton, Hen. IV., i. 2., note. 
suburbiant (sub-er'bi-an), a. [< OF. suburbien, 
< ML. "suburbianus, <f L. suburbium, suburb: 
see suburb. Of. suburban.'] Same as suburban. 
Dryden, Mac Flecknoe, 1. 83. 
Take me e're a shop subvrbian 
That selles such ware. 
Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 72. 
suburbicant (sub-er'bi-kan), a. [For suburbi- 
carian.] Same as suburban. Bp. Gauden, Tears 
of the Church, p. 27. (Davits.) 
suburbicarian (sub-er-bi-ka'ri-an), a. [< LL. 
sulmrbicarius, situated near the city (of Rome), 
< L. sub, under, near, + urbs, city. Of. suburb, 
suburban.'] Being near the city : an epithet ap- 
plied to the provinces of Italy which composed 
the ancient diocese of Rome. The name suburbi- 
carian churches is by some restricted to those that are 
within a hundred miles of Rome, or, as at a later period, 
the districts in central and southern Italy and the Italian 
islands, since this circuit was under the authority of the 
prefect of the city. Certain Roman Catholic scholars, 
however, consider it to have included and still to include 
all the churches of the Western Church. 
The Pope having stretched his authority beyond the 
bounds of his suburbicarian precincts. 
Barrow, Pope's Supremacy. 
SUburbicary (sub-er'bi-ka-ri), a. [< LL. subur- 
bicarius: see suburbicarian.'] Same as suburbi- 
carian. 
subursine (sub-er'sin), . and H. J. a. Some- 
what ursine; bear-like to some extent; repre- 
senting the arctoid series of carnivores sub- 
typically ; procyonif orm or racoon-like. 
II. n. A subursine carnivore; one of several 
small animals of the arctoid or ursine series. 
as the racoon, the coati, and the panda. 
SUbvaginal (sub-vaj'i-nal), a. Placed within 
or on the inner side of a vaginal or sheathing 
membrane. 
subvarietal (sub-va-ri'e-tal), a. Varying slight- 
ly ; having the character of a subvariety. 
SUbvariety (sub-ya-rl'e-ti), .; pi. svbvarirtitv 
(-tiz). A subordinate variety; the further and 
minor modification of a variety ; a strain dif- 
fering little from one more comprehensive, as 
among domestic animals or cultivated plants. 
Subvene (sub-ven'), v. i. ; pret. and pp. subven- 
ed, ppr. subvening. [< F. subvenir = Sp. subvenir, 
relieve, supply, < L. subvenire, come to aid, re- 
lieve, succor, < sub, under, + venire, come : see 
come. Of. convene, etc.] To come under, as a 
support or stay ; arrive or happen, especially so 
as to prevent or obviate something. 
A future state must needs subvene, to prevent the whole 
edifice from falling into ruin. 
Warburtoji, Bolingbroke's Philosophy, iv. 
SUbventaneoust (sub-ven-ta'nf-us), a. [< L. 
sub, under, + ventus, wind, + -aneous."] Per- 
taining to, of the nature of, or caused by wind ; 
windy. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iii. 21. 
subvention (sub-ven'shon), . [< F. subven- 
tion = Sp. subvencion, < LL. suonentio(n-), a ren- 
subverticillate 
dering of aid, assistance, < L. subrcnire, relieve, 
subvene: see subvene."] 1. The act of coming 
under. 
The subvention of a cloud which raised him from the 
ground. Staekhotue. 
2. The act of coming to the relief of some one ; 
something granted in aid; support; subsidy. 
For specific use, see under subsidy. 
The largesses to the Roman people, and the subvention* 
to the provinces in aid of sufferers from earthquakes. 
C. T. Newton, Art and Archseol., p. 131. 
= Syn. 2. Subsidy, Subvention. See subsidy. 
subvention (sub-ven'shon), v. t. [< subrcHtioii, 
.] To give aid to; assist pecuniarily. 
The Revue Europe'enne (1859) was at first tubventioned, 
like the Revue Contemporaine. Encyc. Brit., XVIII. 540. 
SUbventitious (sub-ven-tish'us), a. [< mtb- 
rent-ion + -itioutt.] Affording subvention or 
relief; aiding; supporting. Vrquhart, tr. of 
Rabelais, iii. 33. 
SUbvermiform (sub-ver'mi-form), o. [< L. sub, 
under, + rermis, a worm, -I- forma, form.] 
Shaped somewhat like a worm. 
SUbverset (sub-vers'), v. t. [< L. xubversits, pp. 
of subterterc, subvert: see subvert."] To sub- 
vert. Spenser, F. Q., III. xii. 42. 
subversed (sub'verst), a. Same as suversed. 
subversion (sub-ver'shpn), . [= F. subver- 
sion = Sp. subversion, inversion = Pg. subversao 
= It. suvnersione, (. L. subversio(n-), an over- 
throw, ruin, destruction, < subvertere, overturn, 
subvert: see subvert.] 1. The act of subvert- 
ing or overthrowing, or the state of being over- 
thrown; entire overthrow; utter ruin; destruc- 
tion. 
Subversion of thy harmless life. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 1. 208. 
The subversion [by a storm) of woods and timber. 
Evelyn. 
Nothing can be so gratifying and satisfactory to a right- 
ly disposed mind as the subversion of imposture by the force 
of ridicule. Landor, Lucian and Timotheus. 
2. The cause of overthrow or destruction. 
It may be truly afflrm'd he [the Pope] was the subversion 
and fall of that Monarchy, which was the hoisting of him. 
Milton, Reformation in Eng., ii. 
= Syn. 1. Overturning, downfall, demolition. See subvert. 
subversionary (sub-ver'shon-ii-ri), a. [< sub- 
version + -ary.] Destructive; subversive. 
subversive (sub-ver'siv), a. [= F. subversif= 
Sp. subversive, sitversivo = Pg. subversivo ; as 
subverse + -ire."] Tending to subvert ; having 
a tendency to overthrow and ruin : with of. 
Utterly subversive of liberty. 
A. Tucker, Light of Nature, II. iii. 25. 
From mere superstition may arise a systematized poly- 
theism, which in every stage of growth or decay is sub- 
versive of all high religious aims. 
Dawson, Nature and the Bible, p. 28. 
subvert (sub-vert'), v. t. [< F. subvertir = Sp. 
subvertir = Pg. subverter = It. sovvertere, sov- 
vertire, < L. subvertere, overturn, upset, over- 
throw, < sub, under, + rertere, turn : see verse. 
Of. evert, invert, pervert, etc.] To overthrow; 
overturn; ruin utterly; destroy. 
. Wo worth these gifts ! they subvert justice every where. 
Latimer, 3d Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1549. 
Those bookes tend not so moch to corrupt honest liuing 
as they do to subuert trewe Religion. 
Ascliam, The Scholemaster, p. 79. 
Razeth your cities and subverts your towns. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., ii. 3. 65. 
The tempest of wind being south-west, which subverted, 
besides huge trees, many houses. 
Evelyn, Diary, Feb. 17, 1662. 
This would subvert the principles of all knowledge. 
Locke. 
In Rome the oligarchy was too powerful to be subverted 
by force. Macaulay, Mitford's Hist. Greece. 
= Syn. Overthrow, Invert, etc. See overturn. 
subvertebral (sub-yer'te-bral), a. Placed un- 
der a vertebra; lying under the vertebral or 
spinal column; subspinal or hypaxial Sub- 
vertebral aorta, the aorta ; especially, one of the primi- 
tive aortte, as distinguished from the definitive aorta. See 
aorta. Subvertebral chevron-bone or wedge-bone. 
See wedge-bone, and cut under chevron-bone. 
subverted, subvertent (sub-ver'ted, -tent), . 
In her., same as reversed. 
subverter (sub-ver'ter), w. [< subvert + -rr 1 .'] 
One who subverts: an overthrower. Water- 
land, On Occasional Reflections, i., App. 
subvertible (sub-ver'ti-bl), a. [< stibrert + 
-ible.] Capable of being subverted. 
SUbvertical (sub-ver'ti-kal), . Almost verti- 
cal or perpendicular. 
subverticulate (sub-ver'ti-sil-at), a. Imper- 
fectly verticillate; forming or disposed in an 
incomplete or irregular whorl or verticil. 
