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set thickly, as with studs. The sloping sides and summits of our hills, and the extensive plains that stretch before our view, are studded with substantial, neat, and commodious dwellings of freemen. Bp. Hobart.

ment is based. The earliest known form of subject is the ecclesiastical cantus firmus, or plain song. Rockstro.

Subjacent. "Led them direct . . . to the subjected plain." [Obs.] Milton.

penalty; the process by which a defendant in equity is commanded to appear and answer the plaintiff's bill. [Written also subpena.] Subpoena ad testificandum (. Etym: [NL.] A writ used to procure the attendance of a witness for the purpose of testifying. -- Subpoena duces tecum (. Etym: [NL.] A writ which requires a w…

wine's thread." Chaucer. More subtile web Arachne can not spin. Spenser. I do distinguish plain Each subtile line of her immortal face. Sir J. Davies.

Charge; complaint; accusation. [Obs.] "A false suggestion." Chaucer.

above. -- To bring suit. (Law) (a) To bring secta, followers or witnesses, to prove the plaintiff's demand. [Obs.] (b) In modern usage, to institute an action. -- To follow suit. (Card Playing) See under Follow, v. t.

e served on a person, warning him to appear in court at a day specified, to answer to the plaintiff, testify as a witness, or the like.

a rope; to sunder a limb; to sunder friends. It is sundered from the main land by a sandy plain. Carew.

ppear to originate from its upper part; also of an ovary when the other floral organs are plainly below it in position, and free from it.

Above or beyond physics; not explainable by physical laws. Something superphysical and superchemical. J. Le Conte.

Having a plainted and convolute arrangement in the bud, as in the morning-glory.

To give a surface to; especially, to cause to have a smooth or plain surface; to make smooth or plain.

To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rebutter.

The reply of a plaintiff to a defendant's rebutter.

To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.

The answer of a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.

t; as, swarthy faces. "A swarthy Ethiope." Shak. Their swarthy hosts would darken all our plains. Addison.

ub lightly along. Their long descending train, With rubies edged and sapphires, swept the plain. Dryden.

ce; a sweet color or complexion. Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains. Milton.