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Inhabiting the somewhat high slopes and summits of mountains, but considerably below the snow line.

Ranked or ranged below; subordinate; inferior; specifically (Mil.), ranking as a junior officer; being below the rank of captain; as, a subaltern officer.

Being under the apex; of or pertaining to the part just below the apex.

Situated below the costas, or ribs; as, the subcostal muscles.

The fourth tone above, or fifth below, the tonic; -- so called as being under the dominant.

Situated immediately below the epidermis.

Situated below the glottis; -- applied to that part of the cavity of the larynx below the true vocal cords.

Lying under or below.

Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation. [Obs.] Spenser.

Existing in the mind, but below the surface or threshold of consciousness; that is, existing as feeling rather than as clear ideas.

A process or fold below the tongue in some animals.

The sixth tone of the scale; the under mediant, or third below the keynote; the superdominant.

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

Situated under or below the orbit.

One who stands in order or rank below another; -- distinguished from a principal. Milton.

Situated below the poles.

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.

The seventh tone of the scale, or that immediately below the tonic; -- called also subsemitone.

serving many kinds of food and drink. Ordinary sugar is essentially sucrose. See the Note below.

eceive no tincture, sullage, or difilement from the most noisome sinks and dunghills here below. South.