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- Depression - n. - A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions.
- Sag - n. - State of sinking or bending; sagging.
- Settlement - n. - The gradual sinking of a building, whether by the yielding of the ground under the foundation, or by the compression of the joints or the material.
- Deliquium - n. - A sinking away; a swooning.
- Bead proof - - Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters.
- Sagging - n. - A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. Hogging.
- Immersion - n. - The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx.
- Forcer - n. - A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc.
- Quicksand - n. - Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it.
- Introcession - n. - A depression, or inward sinking of parts.
- Wade - v. i. - To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.
- Buoy - v. t. - To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.
- Quant - n. - A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.
- Trepan - n. - A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.
- Dismay - v. t. - Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.
- Barratry - n. - A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of the mariners, to the injury of the owner of the ship or cargo, and without his consent. It includes every breach of trust committed with dishonest purpose, as by running away with the ship, sinking or deserting her, etc., or by embezzling the cargo.
- Costeaning - n. - The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits.
- Amortization - n. - The extinction of a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund; also, the money thus paid.
- Shore - n. - A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging.
- Creux - n. - Used in English only in the expression en creux. Thus, engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the design.
- Fall - n. - A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence.
- Decline - v. i. - A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline.
- Endure - v. t. - To bear with patience; to suffer without opposition or without sinking under the pressure or affliction; to bear up under; to put up with; to tolerate.
- Amortize - v. t. - To clear off or extinguish, as a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund.
- Buoy - v. t. - To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.
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- G1746 ἐνδύω - 1746 ἐνδύω - ἘΝΔΎΩ - - endýō - en-doo'-o - from ἐν and δύνω (in the sense of sinking into a garment); to invest with clothing (literally or figuratively):--array, clothe (with), endue, have (put) on. - Verb - greek
- G5217 ὑπάγω - 5217 ὑπάγω - ὙΠΆΓΩ - - hypágō - hoop-ag'-o - from ὑπό and ἄγω; to lead (oneself) under, i.e. withdraw or retire (as if sinking out of sight), literally or figuratively:--depart, get hence, go (a-)way. - Verb - greek