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hysical strength or force; strong; lusty; violent; as, a sturdy lout. How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Gray.

A prefix signifying under, below, beneath, and hence often, in an inferior position or degree, in an imperfect or partial state, as in subscribe, substruct, subserve, subject, subordinate, subacid, subastringent, subgranular, suborn. Sub- in Latin compounds often becomes sum- before m, sur before r, and regularly becom…

Situated beneath the acromial process of the scapula.

Beneath the sky; in the open air; specifically (Geol.), taking place on the earth's surface, as opposed to subaqueous.

Being under water, or beneath the surface of water; adapted for use under water; submarine; as, a subaqueous helmet.

Beneath the stars or heavens; terrestrial. Bp. Warburton.

A division of soft-finned fishes in which the ventral fins are situated beneath the pectorial fins, or nearly so.

Situated under or beneath a cartilage or cartilages.

Being beneath the heavens; as, subcelestial glories. Barrow.

A cellar beneath another story wholly or partly underground; usually, a cellar under a cellar.

One of the principal nervures of the wings of an insect. It is situated next beneath or behind the costal. See Nervure.

Occurring beneath a crust or scab; as, a subcrustaceous cicatrization.

Indented beneath.

That which is deposited beneath something else.

Situated beneath the esophagus. [Written also suboesophageal.] Subesophageal ganglion (Zoöl.), a large special ganglion situated beneath the esophagus of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates.

Pertaining or belonging to the under side of a glacier; being beneath a glacier; as, subglacial streams.

Situated or performed beneath the hyoid bone; as, subhyoidean laryngotomy.

Being in a lower situation, though not directly beneath; as, hills and subjacent valleys.

Situated beneath the moon; hence, of or pertaining to this world; terrestrial; earthly. All things sublunary are subject to change. Dryden. All sublunary comforts imitate the changeableness, as well as feel the influence, of the planet they are under. South.

To tie or fasten beneath; to join beneath. [R.] Pope.