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To subject to distillation; as, to distill molasses in making rum; to distill barley, rye, corn, etc.

To separate by definition of terms or logical division of a subject with regard to difference; as, to distinguish sounds into high and low. Moses distinguished the causes of the flood into those that belong to the heavens, and those that belong to the earth. T. Burnet.

To subject to distress; to coerce; as, to distrain a person by his goods and chattels.

Under rule; subject; tributary. [Obs.] Chapman.

Fig.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore. South.

Fig.: One who goes deeply into a subject, study, or business. "A diver into causes." Sir H. Wotton.

To subject to arithmetical division.

the notion is usually implied that the affair does not concern the person denoted by the subject of have. "Philology has to do with language in its fullest sense." Earle. "What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah 2 Sam. xvi. 10.

To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages.

party, church, spirit, power. The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . . but imperious, insolent, and cruel. Macaulay. Dominant estate or tenement (Law), the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate, the estate over which the servi…

erritory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject; as, the dominions of a king. Also used figuratively; as, the dominion of the passions.

tive business of a company or partnership, but is entitled to a share of the profits, and subject to a share in losses; -- called also sleeping or silent partner. -- Dormant window (Arch.), a dormer window. See Dormer. -- Table dormant, a stationary table. [Obs.] Chaucer.

olding a spear or in the attitude of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us.

girders into which the binding joists are framed. -- Double fugue (Mus.), a fugue on two subjects. -- Double letter. (a) (Print.) Two letters on one shank; a ligature.

Making contrary declarations on the same subject; deceitful. Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued. 1 Tim. iii. 8.

To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.

To subject to duress. "The party duressed." Bacon.

One who subjects another to duress Bacon.

Subject to the payment of a duty; as dutiable goods. [U.S.] All kinds of dutiable merchandise. Hawthorne.

Subjected to a duty. Ames.