Index of English words, starting with "su"

(1) - Subsidy (n.) A grant from the government, from a municipal corporation, or the like, to a private person or company to assist the establishment or support of an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public; a subvention; as, a subsidy to the owners of a line of ocean steamships.
(2) - Subsidy (n.) Specifically: A sum of money paid by one sovereign or nation to another to purchase the cooperation or the neutrality of such sovereign or nation in war.
(3) - Subsidy (n.) Support; aid; cooperation; esp., extraordinary aid in money rendered to the sovereign or to a friendly power.

(1) - Subsist (v. t.) To support with provisions; to feed; to maintain; as, to subsist one's family.
(2) - Subsist (v. i.) To be maintained with food and clothing; to be supported; to live.
(3) - Subsist (v. i.) To continue; to retain a certain state.
(4) - Subsist (v. i.) To be; to have existence; to inhere.

(1) - Subsistence (n.) Same as Hypostasis, 2.
(2) - Subsistence (n.) That which furnishes support to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence.
(3) - Subsistence (n.) Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in bodies.
(4) - Subsistence (n.) Real being; existence.

(1) - Subsistent (a.) Inherent; as, qualities subsistent in matter.
(2) - Subsistent (a.) Having real being; as, a subsistent spirit.

(1) - Subsoil (v. t.) To turn up the subsoil of.
(2) - Subsoil (n.) The bed, or stratum, of earth which lies immediately beneath the surface soil.