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The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states; perception that reflects upon itself; sometimes, intensified or energetic perception. Leibnitz. Reid. This feeling has been called by philosophers the apperception or consciousness of our own existence. Sir W. Hamilton.

The act of applying; application; [Obs.] subservience. Shak.

Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office. [R.]

Decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments. According to the appointment of the priests. Ezra vi. 9.

ve matter from the blood is transformed on the surface of an organ into solid unorganized substance.

One not well versed in a subject; a tyro.

on strings, to be unduly controlled by a wife or mother. He was so made that he could not submit to be tied to the apron strings even of the best of wives. Macaulay.

By the way; to the purpose; suitably to the place or subject; -- a word used to introduce an incidental observation, suited to the occasion, though not strictly belonging to the narration.

The introduction of water subcutaneously for the relief of pain.

f, water. An aqueous deposit. Dana. Aqueous extract, an extract obtained from a vegetable substance by steeping it in water. -- Aqueous humor (Anat.), one the humors of the eye; a limpid fluid, occupying the space between the crystalline lens and the cornea. (See Eye.) -- Aqueous rocks (Geol.), those which are deposit…

ith cane sugar, contained in gum arabic, from which it is extracted as a white, amorphous substance.

An extinct genus of Bryzoa characteristic of the subcarboniferous rocks. Its form is that of a screw.

The substance from which attraction spheres develop in mitotic cell division, and of which they consist.

The present indicative plural of the substantive verb to be; but etymologically a different word from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is, all come from the root as.

An oily liquid substance, C8H13O2N, the chief alkaloid of the betel nut, to which the latter owes its anthelmintic action.

An acute and rugged crest of a mountain range or a subsidiary ridge between two mountain gorges.

A substance regarded as an element, contained in the atmosphere and remarkable for its chemical inertness. Rayleigh and Ramsay.

The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem. You and love are still my argument. Shak. The abstract or argument of the piece. Jeffrey. [Shields] with boastful argument portrayed. Milton.…

Caviling; subtle disputation. [Obs.]

Sagacious; acute; subtle; shrewd. The active preacher . . . the argue schoolman. Milman.