\Suc"cu*ba\, n.; pl. {Succub[ae]}. [NL., fr. L. succubare to lie under; sub under + cubare to lie down; cf. L. succuba, succubo, one who lies under another.] A female demon or fiend. See {Succubus}. Though seeming in shape a woman natural Was a fiend of the kind that succub[ae] some call. --Mir. for Mag.