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- Subtile - a. - Thin; not dense or gross; rare; as, subtile air; subtile vapor; a subtile medium.
- Subtile - a. - Delicately constituted or constructed; nice; fine; delicate; tenuous; finely woven.
- Subtile - a. - Acute; piercing; searching.
- Subtile - a. - Characterized by nicety of discrimination; discerning; delicate; refined; subtle.
- Subtile - a. - Sly; artful; cunning; crafty; subtle; as, a subtile person; a subtile adversary; a subtile scheme.
- Aroma - n. - Fig.: The fine diffusive quality of intellectual power; flavor; as, the subtile aroma of genius.
- Subtile - a. - Sly; artful; cunning; crafty; subtle; as, a subtile person; a subtile adversary; a subtile scheme.
- Vortex - n. - A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices.
- Subtile - a. - Thin; not dense or gross; rare; as, subtile air; subtile vapor; a subtile medium.
- Etherealize - v. t. - To convert into ether, or into subtile fluid; to saturate with ether.
- Penetrancy - n. - The quality or state of being penetrant; power of entering or piercing; penetrating power of quality; as, the penetrancy of subtile effluvia.
- Imponderable - n. - An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism, regarded as subtile fluids destitute of weight but in modern science little used.