SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT
Sub*sist"ence De*part"ment. (Mil.)
Defn: A staff department of the United States army charged, under the supervision of the Chief of Staff, with the purchasing and issuing to the army of such supplies as make up the ration. It also supplies, for authorized sales, certain articles of food and other minor stores. It is commanded by any officer of the rank of brigadier general, called commissary general, and the department is popularly called the Commissary Department.
SUBSISTENCY
Sub*sist"en*cy, n.
Defn: Subsistence. [R.]
SUBSISTENT
Sub*sist"ent, a. Etym: [L. subsistens, p.pr. See Subsist.]
1. Having real being; as, a subsistent spirit.
2. Inherent; as, qualities subsistent in matter.
SUBSIZAR
Sub*si"zar, n.
Defn: An under sizar; a student of lower rank than a sizar.
[Cambridge Univ. Eng.]
Bid my subsizar carry my hackney to the buttery and give him his
bever. J. Fletcher.
SUBSOIL
Sub"soil`, n.