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Making a snorting noise; snorting. [R.]

cud; characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia.

A division of Artiodactyla having four stomachs. This division includes the camels, deer, antelopes, goats, sheep, neat cattle, and allies.

In a ruminant manner; by ruminating, or chewing the cud.

One who examines himself; one given to self-examination. The humiliated self-examinant feels that there is evil in our nature as well as good. Coleridge.

Self-contradictory; inconsistent. Brougham.

A sound; a tune; as, to sound the tucket sonance. [Obs.] Shak.

surd; -- sid of the vowels, semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonants b, d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc., which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate. -- n.

Remembrance. [Obs.] Of his way he had no sovenance. Spenser.

A European perennial herb (Asperula cynanchica) with narrowly linear whorled leaves; -- formerly thought to cure the quinsy. Also called quincewort. Squinancy berries, black currants; -- so called because used to cure the quinsy. Dr. Prior.

State of being stagnant.

g in a current or steam; motionless; hence, impure or foul from want of motion; as, a stagnant lake or pond; stagnant blood in the veins.

In a stagnant manner.

A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2. Whately.

The fourth tone above, or fifth below, the tonic; -- so called as being under the dominant.

An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank.

Subordinacy; subordination. [Obs.] Dr. H. More. Sir W. Temple.

One who rents a tenement, or land, etc., of one who is also a tenant; an undertenant.

The sixth tone of the scale; that next above the dominant; -- called also submediant.

The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life.