English English Dictionary

Sweet; pleasant; delightful; gracious or agreeable in manner; bland.

of Suavify

To make affable or suave.

of Suavify

Sweetly speaking; using agreeable speech.

Sweetness of speech.

Sweetness to the taste.

The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; softness; pleasantness; gentleness; urbanity; as, suavity of manners; suavity of language, conversation, or address.

A subordinate; a subaltern.

Before the judge, or court; not yet decided; under judicial consideration.

A prefix signifying under, below, beneath, and hence often, in an inferior position or degree, in an imperfect or partial state, as in subscribe, substruct, subserve, subject, subordinate, subacid, subastringent, subgranular, suborn. Sub- in Latin compounds often becomes sum- before m, sur before r, and regularly becomes suc-, suf-, sug-, and sup- before c, f, g, and p respectively. Before c, p, and t it sometimes takes form sus- (by the dropping of b from a collateral form, subs-).

A prefix denoting that the ingredient (of a compound) signified by the term to which it is prefixed,is present in only a small proportion, or less than the normal amount; as, subsulphide, suboxide, etc. Prefixed to the name of a salt it is equivalent to basic; as, subacetate or basic acetate.

The lowest member of a base when divided horizontally, or of a baseboard, pedestal, or the like.

The deepest pedal stop, or the lowest tones of an organ; the fundamental or ground bass.

Moderately acid or sour; as, some plants have subacid juices.

A substance moderately acid.

Moderalely acrid or harsh.

Situated beneath the acromial process of the scapula.

To reduce; to subdue.

The act of reducing to any state, as of mixing two bodies combletely.