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Very narrow, and tapering gradually to a fine point from a broadish base; awl-shaped; linear.

A division of insects having slender or subulate antennæ. The dragon flies and May flies are examples.

Subulate.

One of a group of carabid beetles having slender palpi.

Beneath or forward of the umbos of a bivalve shell.

The integument of the under surface of the bell, or disk-shaped body, of a jellyfish.

A flood; a deluge. [Obs.] Huloet.

Under the nail or hoof.

the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris. "In the suburbs of a town." Chaucer. [London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous. Hallam.…

Of or pertaining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city. "Suburban taverns." Longfellow. Suburban villas, highway-side retreats, . . . Delight the citizen. Cowper.

Having a suburb or suburbs on its outer part.

Suburban. [Obs.] "Suburbial fields." Warton. "Suburbian muse." Dryden.

Being in the suburbs; -- applied to the six dioceses in the suburbs of Rome subject to the pope as bishop of Rome. The pope having stretched his authority beyond the bounds of his suburbicarian precincts. Barrow.

Situated under the urethra, or under its orifice.

Situated under or inside a sheath or vaginal membrane; as, the subvaginal, or subdural, spaces about the optic nerve.

A subordinate variety, or a division of a variety.

To come under, as a support or stay; to happen. A future state must needs subvene to prevent the whole edifice from falling into ruin. Bp. Warburton.

Produced by the wind. [Obs.]

The act of coming under. "The subvention of a cloud." Stackhouse.

To come to the aid of; to subsidize; to support.