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To write underneath, as one's name; to sign (one's name) to a document. [They] subscribed their names under them. Sir T. More.

One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing.

A division of a tribe; a group of genera of a little lower rank than a tribe.

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

or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful; formidable. Prudent in peace, and terrible in war. Prior. Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible. Deut. vii. 21.

Triple; treble; threefold. [Prov. Eng. or Colloq.] Halliwell.

A censer of metal, for burning incense, having various forms, held in the hand or suspended by chains; -- used especially at mass, vespers, and other solemn services. Fairholt.

A transcriber; -- used in contempt. He [Aristotle] has suffered vastly from the transcribblers, as all authors of great brevity necessarily must. Gray.

To write over again, or in the same words; to copy; as, to transcribe Livy or Tacitus; to transcribe a letter.

One who transcribes, or writes from a copy; a copier; a copyist.

Capable of being transferred; transferable.

Of or pertaining to a tribe or tribes; as, a tribal scepter. Bp. Warburton.

The state of existing in tribes; also, tribal feeling; tribal prejudice or exclusiveness; tribal peculiarities or characteristics.

lacement by basic elements on radicals; -- said of certain acids; thus, citric acid is a tribasic acid.

A frame on which paper is dried. Knight.

ns, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob. "The Lion of the tribe of Juda." Rev. v. 5. A wealthy Hebrew of my tribe. Shak.

A goldsmith's tool used in making rings. Ainsworth.

An instrument to ascertain the degree of friction in rubbing surfaces. Brande & C.

A poetic foot of three short syllables, as, mèlì\'dcs.

Having three bracts.