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Physics, an appellation given to whatever is extremely small, fine, and delicate; such as the animal spirits, the effluvia of odorous bodies, &c., are supposed to be.

Subularia, Rough-leaved Alyssum, or Aulwort, a genus of plants belonging to the class tetradynamia, and in the natural order ranging under the 39th order, Filicofce. See Botany Index.

Subulated, something shaped like an awl.

Succedaneum, in Pharmacy, denotes a drug substituted in the place of another.