Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Subscus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

SUB'SCUS. A tenon, in carpentry, joinery, &c.; that is, the end of a piece of wood or metal cut or moulded into a certain form, to be received into a hole of corresponding size and shape, called a mortise (securicula), for the joining of both together. Vitruv. x. 5. 2. Id. iv. 7. 4.