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A part of a leaf in a check book, after a check is torn out, on which the number, amount, and destination of the check are usually recorded.

A tax on the amount of timber cut, regulated by the price of lumber. [Local, U.S.] The Nation.

rm to which it is prefixed,is present in only a small proportion, or less than the normal amount; as, subsulphide, suboxide, etc. Prefixed to the name of a salt it is equivalent to basic; as, subacetate or basic acetate. [Obsoles.]

To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken. Sir W. O. Russell.

An oxide containing a relatively small amount of oxygen, and less than the normal proportion; as, potassium suboxide, K4O.

To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount; as, each man subscribed ten dollars.

Sum subscribed; amount of sums subscribed; as, an individual subscription to a fund.

ance with riotous living. Luke xv. 13. Thy substance, valued at the highest rate, Can not amount unto a hundred marks. Shak. We are destroying many thousand lives, and exhausting our substance, but not for our own interest. Swift.

The aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added together; as, the sum of 5 and 7 is 12. Take ye the sum of all the congregation. Num. i. 2.

Not to be summed up or computed; so great that the amount can not be ascertained; incalculable; inestimable. "Sumless treasure." Pope.

The act of summing, or forming a sum, or total amount; also, an aggregate. Of this series no summation is possible to a finite intellect. De Quincey.

pence for every pound, imposed, by the Finance Act of 1909-1910 (c. 8, ss 66, 72), on the amount by which the income of any person exceeds £3,000 when his total income exceeds £5,000.

An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies.

ntained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth of a millimeter, is considered to equal the radius of the sphere of molecular action, that is, the greatest distance at which there is cohesion between two particles. Particles lying below this…

Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.

A greater disbursement than the charge of the accountant amounts to. [Obs.] Rees.

A superior lord, to whom fealty is due; a feudal lord; a lord paramount.

The dominion or authority of a suzerain; paramount authority.

To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount.

y animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called boar, the female, sow, and the young, pig. See Hog. "A great herd of swine." Mark v. 11. Swine grass (Bot.), knotgrass (Polygonum…