substylar, substilar

[Eng.substyl(e); ar.] Of or pertaining to the substyle; consisting of the substyle. substylar-line, *substilar-line, s. Dialing : A right line on which the gnomon or style is erected at right angles with the piane. "Erect the style perpendicularly over the substilar line, so as to make an angle with the dial-plane equal to the elevation of the pole of your place." - Moxon : Mech. Exercises . sub-style, s . [Pref. sub- , and Eng. style (q. v.).] Dialing : The line on which the style or gnomon stands, formed by the intersection of the plane of the dial with the plane which pa es through the gnomon. sub-sül-tive, adj . [Lat, subsultum , sup. of sub silio to leap up; sub =under, and salio to leap.) Moving by sudden leaps or starts; bounding; having a spasmodic character. "The earth, I was told, moved up and down like the boiling of a pot:.. this sort of subsultive motion is ever accounted the most dangerous." -Bishop Berkeley: Letters, p. 147. *sub-sült-dr-I-ly, adv . [Eng. subsultory; -ly.] In a subsultory or bounding manner; by leaps; by fits and starts. IMG:content-0502.png:[blocks in formation]