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n. A cock or faucet having a bent down nozzle. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. small lynx (Lynx rufus) of North America.
Syn. -- bay lynx. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the complete blood count; a clinical test which counts the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in one cubic milimeter of blood. [ acronym ]
Syn. -- complete blood count, blood profile. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A cloth to be laid under a dining table to receive falling fragments, and keep the carpet or floor clean. [ Written also crumcloth. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ For dabchick. See Dap, Dip, cf. Dipchick. ] (Zool.) A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Dabchick. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ acronym from Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code. ] (Computers) a 8-bit code for representing alphanumerical information in a digital information storage medium. It was used expecially on IBM mainframes, and differed substantially from the ASCII code. [ acronym ] [ PJC ]

n. A dull, sluggish person; a lubber; a lob. [ Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. mop-muts; OD. mop a woman's coif + D. muts cap. ] A plain cap or headdress for women or girls; especially, one tying under the chin by a very broad band, generally of the same material as the cap itself. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. ob- + compressed. ] Compressed or flattened antero-posteriorly, or in a way opposite to the usual one. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Pref. ob- + conic, conical. ] Conical, but having the apex downward; inversely conical. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. ob- + cordate. ] Heart-shaped, with the attachment at the pointed end; inversely cordate; as, an obcordate petal or leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ W. pib pipe + corn horn. ] (Mus.) A wind instrument or pipe, with a horn at each end, -- used in Wales. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Smaller than the caliber of a firearm. [ Written also subcalibre. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A carbonate containing an excess of the basic constituent. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. (Geol.) Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Carboniferous formations underlying the proper coal measures. It was a marine formation characterized in general by beds of limestone. -- n. The Subcarboniferous period or formation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) United with, or containing, carbon in less than the normal proportion. [ Written also subcarburetted. ] [ Obsoles. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) (a) Situated under or beneath a cartilage or cartilages. (b) Partially cartilaginous. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the tail; as, the subcaudal, or chevron, bones. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being beneath the heavens; as, subcelestial glories. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cellar beneath another story wholly or partly underground; usually, a cellar under a cellar. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. 1. Under the center. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Nearly central; not quite central. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl.) An underchanter; a precentor's deputy in a cathedral; a succentor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Nearly circular. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of the natural groups, more important than an order, into which some classes are divided; as, the angiospermous subclass of exogens. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. sub- + L. clavis a key. See Clavicle. ] (Anat.) Situated under the clavicle, or collar bone; as, the subclavian arteries. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Geol.) Having an imperfect or interrupted columnar structure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An under committee; a part or division of a committee. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet by their sequestrators and subcommittees abroad . . . those orders were commonly disobeyed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not fully compressed; partially or somewhat compressed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Slightly concave. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Partially conformable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Slightly conical. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Situated under the conjunctiva. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Occurring without the possibility or the fact of an attendant consciousness; -- said of states of the soul. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Partially conscious; feebly conscious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being subconscious; a state of mind in which perception and other mental processes occur without distinct consciousness. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Astron.) A subordinate constellation. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A contract under, or subordinate to, a previous contract. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Contracted after a former contract. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Betrothed for the second time. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Contrary in an inferior degree. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geom.) Having, or being in, a contrary order; -- said of a section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applied also to two similar triangles when so placed as to have a common angle at the vertex, the opposite sides not being parallel. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Logic) Denoting the relation of opposition between the particular affirmative and particular negative. Of these both may be true and only one can be false. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Subcontraries (Logic) A subcontrary proposition; a proposition inferior or contrary in a lower degree. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Situated under the coracoid process of the scapula; as, the subcoracoid dislocation of the humerus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat cordate; somewhat like a heart in shape. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) (a) Situated under a horny part or layer. (b) Partially horny. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat. & Zool.) Situated below the costas, or ribs; as, the subcostal muscles. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The subcostal muscles are distinct from, and within, the intercostal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Anat.) A subcostal muscle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) One of the principal nervures of the wings of an insect. It is situated next beneath or behind the costal. See Nervure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the cranium; facial. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Occurring beneath a crust or scab; as, a subcrustaceous cicatrization. [ 1913 Webster ]