SUBSIDY

(Lat. subsidium, a istance.) In Politics, pecuniary aid granted by one government to another in pursuance of a treaty. The grants of public money made to the sovereign, or taxes imposed in this country, were called subsidies. SUBSTANTIVE COLOURS, are those which, in the proce of dyeing, remain fixed or permanent without the intervention of other substances; they are opposed to adjective colours, which require to be fixed by certain inter me des, or substances which have a joint affinity for the colouring matter and the material to be dyed. See Dyeing and Mordant. SUBSTANTIVE, or [s. 1196]