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Smaller than the caliber of a firearm. [Written also subcalibre.] Subcaliber projectile, a projectile having a smaller diameter than the caliber of the arm from which it is fired, and to which it is fitted by means of a sabot. Knight.

ration, sabotage, or revolutionary violence. By the general strike and direct action syndicalism aims to establish a social system in which the means and processes of production are in the control of local organizations of workers, who are manage them for the common good.

One who advocates or practices syndicalism. --Syn`dic*al*is"tic (#), a.

at which is technical, or peculiar to any trade, profession, sect, or the like. The technicalities of the sect. Palfrey.

e quality or state of being vertical; verticalness. [R.] The different points of the verticality. Sir T. Browne.

wel sounds; consisting of the vowel sounds. Earle. The Gaelic language being uncommonly vocalic. Sir W. Scott.

The exercise of the vocal organs; vocalization.

A singer, or vocal musician, as opposed to an instrumentalist.

The quality or state of being vocal; utterableness; resonance; as, the vocality of the letters.

The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.

n or resonance to. It is one thing to give an impulse to breath alone, another thing to vocalize that breath. Holder.

The quality or state of being whimsical; whimsicalness.

sed for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.

A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California.

The lucern (Medicago sativa); -- so called in California, Texas, etc.

The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.

An edible marine fish of California (Rhacochilus toxotes).

The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico.

To localize. [R.]

n inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium. The golden alluvions are there [in California and Australia] spread over a far wider space: they are found not only on the banks of rivers, and in their beds, but are scattered over the surface of vast plains. R. Cobden.