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In a submissive manner; with a submission. [Archaic] Jer. Taylor.

Submissiveness. [Obs.]

To let down; to lower. [Obs.] Sometimes the hill submits itself a while. Dryden.

One who submits. Whitlock.

To suggest; to prompt. [R.] "The submonishing inclinations of my senses." T. Granger.

Suggestion; prompting. [R.] T. Granger.

Situated under a mucous membrane.

ontained in another an exact number of times, or is an aliquot part of it; thus, 7 is the submultiple of 56, being contained in it eight times.

Situated underneath a muscle or muscles.

Moderately narcotic.

Situated under the nose; as, the subnasal point, or the middle point of the inferior border of the anterior nasal aperture.

Growing underneath. [R.] Evelyn.

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

To subjoin; to subnect. [Obs.] Holland.

That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.

A rescript. Bouvier.

Situated on the ventral side of the notochord; as, the subnotochordal rod.

clouds; attended or partly covered or obscured by clouds; somewhat cloudy. [R. & Poetic] Subnuvolar lights of evening sharply slant. Milnes.

Somewhat obscurely or darkly. [R.] Donne.

Partially obtuse.