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Situated under, or posterior to, the occiput; as, the suboccipital, or first cervical, nerve.

Containing one part of eight; having the ratio of one to eight. Bp. Wilkins.

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the eye.

An under or subordinate officer.

Situated below the operculum; pertaining to the suboperculum. -- n.

The lower opercular bone in fishes.

Almost orbiculate or orbicular.

Situated under or below the orbit.

an order and of greater importance than a tribe or family; as, cichoraceous plants form a suborder of Compositæ.

The quality or state of being subordinate, or subject to control; subordination, as, to bring the imagination to act in subordinacy to reason. Spectator.

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

One of several heraldic bearings somewhat less common than an ordinary. See Ordinary.

lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position. The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished. Woodward.

The act of subordinating, placing in a lower order, or subjecting.

Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination; used to introduce a subordinate sentence; as, a subordinative conjunction.

or by collusion; to procure by indirect means; to incite secretly; to instigate. Thou art suborned against his honor. Shak. Those who by despair suborn their death. Dryden.

The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury. Blackstone.

One who suborns or procures another to take, a false oath; one who procures another to do a bad action.

Somewhat oval; nearly oval.

Nearly in the form of an egg, or of the section of an egg, but having the inferior extremity broadest; nearly ovate.