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SUBTILE

Volume 19 · 73 words · 1823 Edition

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 Aulacopetalum, a genus of plants belonging to the class tetrady-nania, and in the natural order ranging under the 39th order Silicaceae. See Botany Index.

Subulated, something shaped like an awl.

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