| subscribe | (v) offer to buy, as of stocks and shares | | subscribe | (v) adopt as a belief, Syn. support | | subscribe | (v) receive or obtain regularly, Syn. subscribe to, take | | subscriber | (n) someone who expresses strong approval, Syn. ratifier, indorser, endorser | | subscriber | (n) someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication, Syn. reader | | subscriber | (n) someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money, Syn. contributor | | subscript | (n) a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character, Syn. inferior, Ant. superscript | | subscript | (adj) written or printed below and to one side of another character, Syn. inferior, Ant. adscript, superscript | | subscription | (n) a payment for consecutive issues of a newspaper or magazine for a given period of time | | subscription | (n) agreement expressed by (or as if expressed by) signing your name |
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| Subsacral | a. (Anat.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the sacrum. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Subsaline | a. Moderately saline or salt. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Subsalt | n. (Chem.) A basic salt. See the Note under Salt. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Subsannation | n. [ L. subsannatio, fr. subsannare to deride by mimicking gestures. ] Derision; mockery. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Subscapulary | { } a. (Anat.) Situated beneath the scapula; infrascapular; as, the subscapular muscle. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Subscapular | | Subscribable | a. Capable of being subscribed. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ] | | Subscribe | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Subscribed p. pr. & vb. n. Subscribing. ] [ L. subscribere, subscriptum; sub under + scribere to write: cf. F. souscrire. See Scribe. ] 1. To write underneath, as one's name; to sign (one's name) to a document. [ 1913 Webster ] [ They ] subscribed their names under them. Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To sign with one's own hand; to give consent to, as something written, or to bind one's self to the terms of, by writing one's name beneath; as, parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond. [ 1913 Webster ] All the bishops subscribed the sentence. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. To attest by writing one's name beneath; as, officers subscribe their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies or records. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount; as, each man subscribed ten dollars. [ 1913 Webster ] 5. To sign away; to yield; to surrender. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] 6. To declare over one's signature; to publish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Either or must shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe him a coward. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Subscribe | v. i. 1. To sign one's name to a letter or other document. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To give consent to something written, by signing one's name; hence, to assent; to agree. [ 1913 Webster ] So spake, so wished, much humbled Eve; but Fate
Subscribed not. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. To become surely; -- with for. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. To yield; to admit one's self to be inferior or in the wrong. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] I will subscribe, and say I wronged the duke. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] 5. To set one's name to a paper in token of promise to give a certain sum. [ 1913 Webster ] 6. To enter one's name for a newspaper, a book, etc. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Subscriber | n. 1. One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. One who enters his name for a paper, book, map, or the like. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Subscript | a. [ L. subscriptus, p. p. See Subscribe. ] Written below or underneath; as, iota subscript. (See under Iota.) Specifically (Math.), said of marks, figures, or letters (suffixes), written below and usually to the right of other letters to distinguish them; as, a, n, 2, in the symbols Xa, An, Y2. See Suffix, n., 2, and Subindex. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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