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To reduce; to subdue. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of reducing to any state, as of mixing two bodies combletely. [Obs.] Bacon.

A contract under, or subordinate to, a previous contract.

Contracted after a former contract.

One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.

To subtract; to withdraw. [Obs.] Barrow.

Subtraction; deduction. [Obs.]

One who subtracts.

To withdraw, or take away, as a part from the whole; to deduct; as, subtract 5 from 9, and the remainder is 4.

One who subtracts.

The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.

Tending, or having power, to subtract.

Having two or more digits wholly or partly united. See Syndactylism.

Any bird having syndactilous feet.

Syndactilous.

Having the toes firmly united together for some distance, and without an intermediate web, as the kingfishers; gressorial.

Of or pertaining to syntax; according to the rules of syntax, or construction. -- Syn*tac"tic*al*ly, adv.

A wasting away; a gradual losing of flesh by disease.

The sense of touch; feeling. Did you suppose that I could not make myself sensible to tact as well as sight Southey. Now, sight is a very refined tact. J. Le Conte.

Capable of being touched; tangible. [R.] "They [women] being created to be both tractable and tactable." Massinger.