The amount to be issued to troops as daily pay, after making the regulated deductions for rations, necessaries, &c.
·noun Real being; existence. II. Subsistence ·noun ·same·as <<Hypostasis>>, 2. III. Subsistence ·n...
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·add. ·- A staff department of the United States army charged, under the supervision of the Chief of...