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Webster 1913 Edition


Sub

Sub

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Noun.
1.
A subordinate; a subaltern.
[Colloq.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Sub

SUB

, a Latin preposition, denoting under or below, used in English as a prefix, to express a subordinate degree. Before f and p it is changed into those letters, as in suffer, and suppose; and before m, into that letter, as in summon.