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An inferior or subordinate faculty.

A subordinate keeper or guardian. Gray.

A subordinate or dependent kingdom. Tennyson.

An assistant or subordinate laborer. Locke.

An inferior person or agent; a subordinate; hence, a mean, sorry fellow. Milton. he fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Shak.

A master subordinate to the principal master; an assistant master.

To serve, or minister to, in a subordinate relation. [Obs.] Wyclif.

A subordinate or inferior ministry. Jer. Taylor.

A subordinate officer.

A subordinate part. It should be lightened with underparts of mirth. Dryden.

To play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part.

A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.

Accompanying strain; subordinate and underlying meaning; accompaniment; undertone. In the very [poetry] there often an undersong of sense which none beside the poetic mind . . . can comprehend. Landor.

Of or pertaining to the kitchen, or the servants' quarters; hence, subordinate; menial. [Obs.]

Inferior or subordinate work; petty business. Addison.

An inferior or subordinate workman. Waterland.

e preserved; conformity in a composition to these; in oratory, discourse, etc., the due subordination and reference of every part to the development of the leading idea or the eastablishment of the main proposition.

rado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and adjacent regions. They are subdivided into several subordinate tribes, some of which are among the most degraded of North American Indians.

The pendent fleshy lobe in the middle of the posterior border of the soft palate.

inus). It has a long, tubular canal, with a row of long, slender spines along both of its borders, and rows of similar spines covering the body of the shell. Called also Venus's shell. -- Venus's fan (Zoöl.), a common reticulated, fanshaped gorgonia (Gorgonia flabellum) native of Florida and the West Indies. When fres…