subsidiary troops

pl. Troops of one nation hired by another for military service. sub-si-dize, v . t. [Eng. subsid(y) -ize.] To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the a istance of by the payment of a subsidy; to a ist an individual or an undertaking with money, as when a state subsidizes a theater. sub-si-dỹ, sub-si-die, s . [Lat. subsidium=a body of troops in reserve, aid, a istance, from sub =under, behind, and sedeo =to sit; Fr. subside.] 1. Pecuniary aid; aid given in money. ""I cannot,' he wrote, 'offer a suggestion without being met by a demand for a subsidy.'"-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xix. 2. A sum paid, often under a treaty, by one gov ernment to another, sometimes to secure its neutrality, but more frequently to meet the expenses of carrying on a war. 3. Specif .: A grant from the government, from a municipal corporation, or the like, to a private person or company to a ist in the establishment or support of an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public; a subvention; as, a subsidy to the owners of a line of steamships. *sub-sign' ( g silent), v . t . [Lat. subsigno: sub= under, and sig no =to sign, to seal.] To sign under; to write beneath; to subscribe. "Sub signed with cro es and single names, without surnames."-Camden: Remains; Surnames. 1. Having existence or real being; existing. "Such as deny there are spirits subsistent without bodies, will with more difficulty affirm the separated existence of their own."-Browne, Vulgar Errors, bk. i., ch. x. 2. Inherent. "No sensible qualities, as light, and color, and heat, and sound, can be subsistent in the bodies themselves absolutely considered, without a relation to our eyes, and other organs of sense." -Bentley: Sermon 2.