Search the Dictionary

stomapod crustaceans of the genus Squilla and allied genera. They make burrows in mud or beneath stones on the seashore. Called also mantis shrimp. See Illust. under Stomapoda.

The larve of any species of botfly which is parasitic upon the stag, as , which burrows beneath the skin, and Cephalomyia auribarbis, which lives in the nostrils.

An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.

To help; to support; to benefit; to assist. Perhaps my succour or advisement meet, Mote stead you much your purpose to subdue. Spenser. It nothing steads us To chide him from our eaves. Shak.

teeple chase. -- Steeple engine, a vertical back-acting steam engine having the cylinder beneath the crosshead. -- Steeple house, a church. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

th continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand. "The stream of beneficence." Atterbury. "The stream of emigration." Macaulay.

hysical strength or force; strong; lusty; violent; as, a sturdy lout. How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Gray.

of any important body; mode of address; as, the style of Majesty. One style to a gracious benefactor, another to a proud, insulting foe. Burke.

A prefix signifying under, below, beneath, and hence often, in an inferior position or degree, in an imperfect or partial state, as in subscribe, substruct, subserve, subject, subordinate, subacid, subastringent, subgranular, suborn. Sub- in Latin compounds often becomes sum- before m, sur before r, and regularly becom…

Situated beneath the acromial process of the scapula.

Beneath the sky; in the open air; specifically (Geol.), taking place on the earth's surface, as opposed to subaqueous.

Being under water, or beneath the surface of water; adapted for use under water; submarine; as, a subaqueous helmet.

Beneath the stars or heavens; terrestrial. Bp. Warburton.

A division of soft-finned fishes in which the ventral fins are situated beneath the pectorial fins, or nearly so.

Situated under or beneath a cartilage or cartilages.

Being beneath the heavens; as, subcelestial glories. Barrow.

A cellar beneath another story wholly or partly underground; usually, a cellar under a cellar.

One of the principal nervures of the wings of an insect. It is situated next beneath or behind the costal. See Nervure.

Occurring beneath a crust or scab; as, a subcrustaceous cicatrization.

Indented beneath.