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Situated beneath the moon; hence, of or pertaining to this world; terrestrial; earthly. All things sublunary are subject to change. Dryden. All sublunary comforts imitate the changeableness, as well as feel the influence, of the planet they are under. South.

Situated underneath a muscle or muscles.

Growing underneath. [R.] Evelyn.

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

Situated beneath the peduncle; as, the subpeduncular lobe of the cerebellum.

Watered or wet beneath; well-watered. [Obs.] Blount.

Situated beneath the scapula; infrascapular; as, the subscapular muscle.

To write underneath, as one's name; to sign (one's name) to a document. [They] subscribed their names under them. Sir T. More.

Written below or underneath; as, iota subscript. (See under Iota.) Specifically (Math.), said of marks, figures, or letters (suffixes), written below and usually to the right of other letters to distinguish them; as, a, n, 2, in the symbols Xa, An, Y2. See Suffix, n., 2, and Subindex.

To sign beneath; to subscribe. [R.] Camden.

The bed, or stratum, of earth which lies immediately beneath the surface soil. Subsoil plow, a plow having a share and standard but no moldboard. It follows in the furrow made by an ordinary plow, and loosens the soil to an additional depth without bringing it to the surface. Knight.

To build beneath something; to lay as the foundation. [R.] He substructs the religion of Asia as the base. Emerson.

Running under or beneath. [R.]

Beneath or forward of the umbos of a bivalve shell.

Situated beneath, or on the ventral side of, the vertebral column; situated beneath, or inside of, the endoskeleton; hypaxial; hyposkeletal.

A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.

Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry deserts. Such as, born beneath the burning sky And sultry sun, betwixt the tropics lie. Dryden.

To surpass; to exceed. Spenser. What surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate. Milton.

directions of the bounding lines, the contour of the surface, etc., with an accurate delineation of the whole on paper; the act or occupation of making surveys. Geodetic surveying, geodesy. -- Maritime, or Nautical, surveying, that branch of surveying which determines the forms of coasts and harbors, the entrances of…

An order of slender eel-like fishes having the gill openings confluent beneath the neck. The pectoral arch is generally attached to the skull, and the entire margin of the upper jaw is formed by the premaxillary. Called also Symbranchia.