She worked as asub until she got her teaching certificate.
1930, Boy's Live, Philip Scruggs,There Can Be Victory,page20:
At any other school you would be playing varsity, and Wallace has you pigeon-holed on thesubs." "Maybe he has his reasons," Jim replied. "And he hasn't pigeon-holed me on thesubs yet — not this season.
He was known as 'Mad Carew' by thesubs at Khatmandu, He was hotter than they felt inclined to tell; But for all his foolish pranks, he was worshipped in the ranks, And the Colonel's daughter smiled on him as well.
2011, Rowland Rivron,What the F*** Did I Do Last Night?:
I kept up the pleasantries as we were drying our hands and, realizing I didn't have any change for the lodger, I asked him, one drummer to another like, if he couldsub me a quid for the dish.
You've neversubbed before. Jessica will be expecting a man on stage that follows orders and enjoys what she's going to be doing. Do you want to be spanked? Possibly whipped?
2012, Tiffany Reisz,Little Red Riding Crop:
Wasn't like she'd neversubbed before. She'd been a sub longer than she'd been a Dominatrix–ten years she'd spent in a collar.
(microscopy) To prepare (a slide) with alayer of transparent substance to support and/or fix the sample.
1997, Marina A. Lynch, S. M. O'Mara (editors), Ali D. Hames, D. Rickwood (series editors),Neuroscience Labfax,page 166,
Ensure that gloves are worn when handlingsubbed slides. Although the following protocol describessubbing with gelatin, slides may also be coated with either 3-(triethoxysilyl-)propylamine (TESPA) or poly-L-lysine forin situ hybridization.
FromProto-Italic*supo, fromProto-Indo-European*upó. CompareAncient Greekὑπό(hupó). The usage with the accusative is from the pre-PIE directional, while with the ablative it is from both the locative,“under”, and the ablative,“from underneath”.
“sub”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“sub”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"sub", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
sub inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[2], London:Macmillan and Co.
at the foot of the mountain:sub radicibus montis, in infimo monte, sub monte
in the open air:sub divo
to come within the sphere of the senses:sub sensum orsub oculos, sub aspectum cadere
to come within the sphere of the senses:sensibus orsub sensus subiectum esse
to have to submit to the uncertainties of fortune; to be subject to Fortune's caprice:sub varios incertosque casus subiectum esse
to be comprised under the term 'fear.:sub metum subiectum esse
to represent a thing vividly:oculis orsub oculos, sub aspectum subicere aliquid
graphic depiction:rerum sub aspectum paene subiectio (De Or. 3. 53. 202)
to give a general idea of a thing:sub unum aspectum subicere aliquid
to sell a prisoner of war as a slave:aliquem sub corona vendere (B. G. 3. 16)
the case is still undecided:adhuc sub iudice lis est (Hor. A. P. 77)
to occupy the foot of a hill:considere sub monte (sub montis radicibus)
the free men are sold as slaves:libera corpora sub corona (hasta) veneunt (B. G. 3. 16. 4)
to be subject to some one, under some one's dominion:sub imperio et dicione alicuius esse
