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Submersed.

Being or growing under water, as the leaves of aquatic plants.

The act of submerging, or putting under water or other fluid, or of causing to be overflowed; the act of plunging under water, or of drowning.

To subvert. [Obs.] Spenser.

entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution. The subversion [by a storm] of woods and timber . . . through my whole estate. Evelyn. Laws have been often abused to the oppression and…

Promoting destruction.

Tending to subvert; having a tendency to overthrow and ruin. Lying is a vice subversive of the very ends and design of conversation. Rogers.

See Somersault, Somerset.

To summer-fallow.

Situated over, or on the dorsal side of, the sacrum.

The act of leaping on anything. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Leaping upon. [Obs.]

An acid salt. See Acid salt (a), under Salt, n.

To add to beyond saturation; as, to supersaturate a solution.

The operation of supersaturating, or the state of being supersaturated.

; to write a name, address, or the like, on the outside or cover of (anything); as, to superscribe a letter.

Superscription. [Obs.] "I will overglance the superscript." Shak.

The act of superscribing.

Being above the world, or secular things. Bp. Hall.

To displace, or set aside, and put another in place of; as, to supersede an officer.