Part 902

Sub*car`bon*if"er*ous (?), a. (Geol.) Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Carboniferous formations underlying the proper coal measures. It was a marine formation characterized in general by beds of limestone. -- n. The Subcarboniferous period or formation.

Sub*car"bu*ret`ed (?), a. (Chem.) United with, or containing, carbon in less than the normal proportion. [Written also subcarburetted.] [Obsoles.]

Sub*car`ti*lag"i*nous (?), a. (Anat.) (a) Situated under or beneath a cartilage or cartilages. (b) Partially cartilaginous.

Sub*cau"dal (?), a. (Anat.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the tail; as, the subcaudal, or chevron, bones.

Sub`ce*les"tial (?), a. Being beneath the heavens; as, subcelestial glories. Barrow.

Sub*cen"tral (?), a. 1. Under the center.

2. Nearly central; not quite central.

Sub*chant"er (?), n. (Eccl.) An underchanter; a precentor's deputy in a cathedral; a succentor.

Sub*cir"cu*lar (?), a. Nearly circular.

Sub"class` (?), n. One of the natural groups, more important than an order, into which some classes are divided; as, the angiospermous subclass of exogens.

Sub*cla"vi*an (?), a. [Pref. sub- + L. clavis a key. See Clavicle.] (Anat.) Situated under the clavicle, or collar bone; as, the subclavian arteries.

Sub`co*lum"nar (?), a. (Geol.) Having an imperfect or interrupted columnar structure.

Sub`com*mit"tee (?), n. An under committee; a part or division of a committee.

Yet by their sequestrators and subcommittees abroad . . . those orders were commonly disobeyed.

Milton.

Sub`com*pressed" (?), a. Not fully compressed; partially or somewhat compressed.

Sub*con"cave (?), a. Slightly concave. Owen.

Sub`con*form"a*ble (?), a. Partially conformable.

Sub*con"ic*al (?), a. Slightly conical.

Sub*con`junc*ti"val (?), a. (Anat.) Situated under the conjunctiva.

Sub*con"scious (?), a. 1. Occurring without the possibility or the fact of an attendant consciousness; -- said of states of the soul.

2. Partially conscious; feebly conscious.

Sub*con`stel*la"tion (?), n. (Astron.) A subordinate constellation. Sir T. Browne.

Sub*con"tract (?), n. A contract under, or subordinate to, a previous contract.

Sub`con*tract"ed (?), a. 1. Contracted after a former contract.

2. Betrothed for the second time. [Obs.] Shak.

Sub`con*tract"or (?), n. One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.

Sub*con"tra*ry (?), a. 1. Contrary in an inferior degree.