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A nonacid compound consisting of one equivalent of sulphur and more than one equivalent of some other body, as a metal.

Subsultory. [R.] Berkley.

Bounding; leaping; moving by sudden leaps or starts. [R.] -- Sub*sul"to*ri*ly, adv. [R.] Flippancy opposed to solemnity, the subsultory to the continuous, -- these are the two frequent extremities to which the French manner betrays men. De Quincey.

A starting, twitching, or convulsive motion.

Capable of being subsumed. J. B. Stallo.

(any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include under something else. To subsume one proposition under another. De Quincey. A principle under which one might subsume men's most strenuous efforts after righteousness. W. Pater.

The act of subsuming, or of including under another. The first act of consciousness was a subsumption of that of which we were conscious under this notion. Sir W. Hamilton.

Relating to, or containing, a subsumption. Coleridge.

The part of the axis contained between the ordinate and tangent drawn to the same point in a curve.

Being or living under Tartarus; infernal. "Subtartarean powers." Pope.

A space under a roof; a tabernacle; a dwelling. [Obs.] Davies (Holy Roode).

Under the roof or eaves; within doors. [R.]

One who rents a tenement, or land, etc., of one who is also a tenant; an undertenant.

To extend under, or be opposed to; as, the line of a triangle which subtends the right angle; the chord subtends an arc.

A line subtending, or stretching across; a chord; as, the subtense of an arc.

Slightly tepid.

Somewhat terete.

Running under or beneath. [R.]

ent, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion. Affect not little shifts and subterfuges, to avoid the force of an argument. I. Watts. By a miserable subterfuge, they hope to render this position safe by rendering it nugatory. Burke.

A cave or room under ground. [R.] J. Bryant.