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Subordinate :: Subordinate (a.) Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position..

Roarer :: Roarer (n.) A horse subject to roaring. See Roaring, 2..

Tin :: Tin (n.) An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). At

Subfibrous :: Subfamily (n.) One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided..

Litigate :: Litigate (v. t.) To make the subject of a lawsuit; to contest in law; to prosecute or defend by pleadings, exhibition of evidence, and judicial debate in a court; as, to litigate a cause..

Peace :: Peace (v.) Exemption from, or subjection of, agitating passions; tranquillity of mind or conscience..

Sublapsarianism :: Sublapsarian (n. & a.) Same as Infralapsarian.

Sublimities :: Sublimification (n.) The act of making sublime, or state of being made sublime..

Erythrogen :: Erythrogen (n.) Carbon disulphide; -- so called from certain red compounds which it produces in combination with other substances.

Principle :: Principle (n.) Any original inherent constituent which characterizes a substance, or gives it its essential properties, and which can usually be separated by analysis; -- applied especially to drugs, plant extracts, etc..

Elasmobranchii :: Elasmobranchii (n. pl.) A subclass of fishes, comprising the sharks, the rays, and the Chimaera. The skeleton is mainly cartilaginous..

Fable :: Fable (n.) The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem..

Pounding :: Pounding (n.) A pounded or pulverized substance.

Solvend :: Solvend (n.) A substance to be dissolved.

Background :: Background (n.) The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures.

Mutiny :: Mutiny (n.) Insurrection against constituted authority, particularly military or naval authority; concerted revolt against the rules of discipline or the lawful commands of a superior officer; hence, generally, forcible resistance to rightful authority; insubordination..

Pulu :: Pulu (n.) A vegetable substance consisting of soft, elastic, yellowish brown chaff, gathered in the Hawaiian Islands from the young fronds of free ferns of the genus Cibotium, chiefly C. Menziesii; -- used for stuffing mattresses, cushions, etc., and as an absorbent..

Coercion :: Coercion (n.) The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. Coactus volui (I consented under compulsion) is the condit

Demissive :: Demissive (a.) Downcast; submissive; humble.

Fimbriated :: Fimbriated (a.) Having a very narrow border of another tincture; -- said esp. of an ordinary or subordinary.

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