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SU'BTILTY, s. [subtilite, Fr.] Thinness; fineness; 
exility of parts. 
How shall we this union well express ? 
Nought ties the soul, her subtilty is such. Davies. 
Nicety; exility.—Whatsoever is invisible, in respect of 
the fineness of the body, or subtility of the motion, is little 
enquired. Bacon. —Refinement; too much acuteness.— 
You prefer the reputation of candour before that of subtilty. 
Boyle. —Cunning; artifice; slyness. 
Sleights proceeding 
As from his wit and native subtlety. Milton. 
SU'BTLE, adj. Sly; artful; cunning.—The serpent, 
subtlest beast of all the field. Milton. 
SU'BTLY, adv. Slyly; artfully; cunningly. 
Thou see’st how subtly to detain thee I devise; 
Inviting thee to hear while I relate. Milton. 
Nicely ; delicately. 
In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true. 
From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew! Pope. 
To SUBTRA'CT, v. a. [subtractus, Lat.] To with¬ 
draw part from the rest.—Reducing many things unto charge, 
which, by confusion, became concealed and subtracted 
from the crown. Davies. 
SUBTRA'CTION, s. Substraction: which see. In law. 
—Subtraction happens, when any person who owes any 
suit, duty, custom, or service to another, withdraws or 
neglects to perform it. Blackstone. 
SUBTRACTER, or Su'btrahend, s. [ subtrahe , Lat.] 
The number to be taken out of a larger number. 
SUBTRI'PLE, adj. [subtriple , Fr.; sub and triplus, 
Lat.] Containing a third or one part of three.—The power 
will be in a subtriple proportion to the weight. Wilkins. 
SUBTUTOR, s. A subordinate tutor.—He [bishop Earl] 
had been his subtutor. Burnet. 
SUBVENT ANEOUS, adj. [subventaneus, Lat.] Ad¬ 
dle ; windy.— Subventaneous eggs. Medic. Ess. 
SUBVENTION, s. [subvention, old Fr.] The act of 
coming under; the act of supporting; aid. Cotgrave. — 
The manner in which our Saviour is said to have been car¬ 
ried up, was, by the subvention of a cloud. Stackhouse. 
To SUBVERSE, v. a. [subversus, Lat.J To subvert; 
to overthrow. 
Returning back, these goodly rowmes, which erst 
She saw so rich and royally array’d. 
Now vanish’t utterly and cleane subverst 
She found, and all their glory quite decay’d. Spenser. 
SUBVERSION, s. [subversion, Fr.; subversus, Lat.] 
Overthrow; ruin ; destruction.—These seek subversion of 
thy harmless life. Shakspeare. 
SUBVERSIVE, adj. Having tendency to overturn : 
with of. —Lying is a vice subversive of the very ends and 
design of conversation. Rogers. 
To SUBVERT, v. a. [subvertir, Fr.; subverto, Lat.] 
To overthrow; to overturn; to destroy; to turn upside 
down. 
God, by things deem’d weak. 
Subverts the worldly strong and worldly wise. Milton. 
To corrupt; to confound.—Strive not about words to no 
purpose, but to the subverting of the hearers. 2 Tim. 
SUBVERTER, s. Overthrower; destroyer. 
O traitor; worse than Simon was to Troy ; 
O vile subverter of the Gallic reign. 
More false than Gano was to Charlemagne. Dryden. 
SUBULARIA [so named from its awl-shaped leaves], 
in Botany, a genus of the class tetradynamia,order siliculosa, 
natural order of siliquosae or cruciformes, cruciferse (Juss.) 
•—Generic Character. Calyx: perianth four-leaved; leaflets 
ovate, concave, spreading a little, deciduous. Corolla, four- 
petalled, cruciform. Petals obovate, entire, a little bigger 
than the calyx. Stamina: filaments six, shorter than the 
corolla: two of which are opposite and still shorter, anthers 
simple. Pistil: germ ovate; style shorter than the silicle; 
stigma obtuse. Pericarp: silicle ovate, subcompressed, en¬ 
tire, with a very short style, two-celled; partition contrary 
to the valves: valves ovate, concave; seeds some, very minute, 
roundish.— Essential Character. Silicle entire, ovate: 
valves ovate, concave, contrary to the partition. Style 
shorter than the silicle. 
1. Subularia aquatica, or awl-wort.—The root is annual, 
and consists of many long simple white fibres. Leaves all 
radical, smooth, awl-shaped with a recurved point. Stalk 
seldom more than two inches high, simple, smooth, bearing 
a simple spike of small white flowers, always immersed in 
the water, and so closed that the impregnation is accomplish¬ 
ed in safety under the protection of the calyx and petals. 
Seeds ovate, compressed, about three on each side.—Native 
of many parts of Europe. 
SUBUNDA'TION, s. [sub and unda, Lat.] Flood; 
deluge. Not in use. —Banks defensive against subundation, 
called sea-banks. JIuloet. 
SUBUNREEKA, a river of Hindostan, which divides the 
provinces of Orissa and Bengal; aqd, till the year 1803, 
formed the boundary between the British and the Nagpore 
Mahrattas. It rises in the province of Bahar, and is about 
250 miles long. It is fordable, except in the rainy season, 
and falls into the bay of Bengal, at Piply pagoda. It was the 
first river of Bengal into which Europeans were allowed 
to enter; but the channel is much choaked up since that 
period. 
SURURB, s. [suburbium, Lat,] Building without the 
walls of a city.—There’s a trim rabble let in: are all these 
your faithful friends o’ th’ suburbs ? Shakspeare. —The 
confines; the outpart. 
The suburbs of my jacket are so gone, 
I have not left one skirt to sit upon. Cleaveland. 
SUBURBAN, Subu'rbial, or Subu'rbian, adj. 
[suburbanus, Lat.] Inhabiting the suburb. 
Athens the eye of Greece, mother of arts 
And eloquence, native to famous wits 
City or suburban, studious walks and shades. Milton. 
SU'BURBED, adj. Bordering upon a suburb; having a 
suburb on its outpart.—The first place, which here offereth 
itself to sight is Bottreaux Castle, seated on a bad harbour of 
the north sea, and suburbed with a poor market town. Ca- 
rew. 
SUBURBICARIAN, adj. [suburbicarius, Lat.] Ap¬ 
plied to those provinces of Italy, which composed the 
ancient diocese of Rome.—The pope having stretched his 
authority beyond the suburbicarian precincts. Barrow. 
SUB WORKER, s. Underworker; subordinate helper. 
—He that governs well leads the blind; but he that teaches 
gives him eyes : and it is glorious to be a subworker to grace, 
in freeing it from some of the inconveniences of original sin. 
South. 
SUBZOW, a small town in the interior of European 
Russia, in the government of Tver, on the Wolga, with 
1100 inhabitants. 
SUCA1FE, a village of Hedsjas, in Arabia; 25 miles south¬ 
east of Yambo. 
SUCCA, a small sea-port of Tripoli, in the gulph of Sidra; 
45 miles south-east of Mesuradu. 
SUCCADANA, a town of the island of Borneo, on 
the west coast. It is situated on the principal or southern 
outlet of a large river, which is navigable 150 miles for 
prows. It is celebrated for very large diamonds, as also for 
the best camphire. It is also a considerable mart for opium, 
the sale of which is monopolized by the rajah and his family. 
Gold dust, tin, and pepper, are also to be procured. Lat. 
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SUCCEDANEOUS, adj. [succedaneus, Lat.] Sup¬ 
plying the place of something else.—Nor is iEtius perhaps 
too strictly to be observed, when he prescribeth the stones of 
the otter as succedaneous unto castoreum. Brown. 
SUCCEDA'NEUM, s. That which is put to serve for 
something 
