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To dash or fall headlong. [R.] So many fathom down precipitating. Shak.

The deep; the sea; the ocean. God in the fathomless profound Hath all this choice commanders drowned. Sandys.

oon serene in glory mounts the sky. Pope. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear. Gray.

To measure the depth of; to fathom; especially, to ascertain the depth of by means of a line and plummet.

sed to ascertain the depth of water in a ship's hold. -- In soundings, within the eighty-fathom line. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.

ce from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom.

e by the piece, as in nonmetaliferous rock, the amount done being usually reckoned by the fathom. Tomlinson.

of consciousness, vital actions no longer need to be considered as of a mysterious and unfathomable character, nor vital force as anything other than a form of physical energy derived from, and convertible into, other well- known forces of nature. -- Vital functions (Physiol.), those functions or actions of the body…