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  1.  [SUB- 20 c.] Nearly linear (Bot. and Zool.: see LINEAR a. 4 b).

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1777.  S. Robson, Brit. Flora, 89. Leaves sublinear.

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1852.  Dana, Crust., II. 887. The hand of the first pair of legs is sublinear.

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1888.  Amer. Nat., XXII. 1017. Suture sublinear above and slightly channeled below.

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  2.  [SUB- 1 a.] Placed below a written or printed line.

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  Cf. Sublineation s.v. SUB- 2.

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1868.  Visct. Strangford, Sel. (1869), II. 254. The strange hooks or sub-linear commas by which the Poles denote certain nasal sounds in their language.

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1909.  Bible in World, Aug., 239/2. There are two chief systems of punctuation known, sublinear and superlinear. Ibid. All ordinary Hebrew manuscripts are vocalised or ‘pointed’ with the sublinear vowel signs.

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