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man. He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels. Addison. -- To go to the bottom, to sink; esp. to be wrecked. -- To touch bottom, to reach the lowest point; to find something on which to rest.

A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind. Into a gradual calm the breezes sink. Wordsworth.

To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.

The act or state of declining or sinking. [Obs.] Now was the sun in western cadence low. Milton.

A state of being under control; subjection of the will or affections; bondage. Sink in the soft captivity together. Addison.

Hollow relief; sculpture in relief within a sinking made for the purpose, so no part of it projects beyond the plain surface around.

A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool. Knight.

choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obs.] The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones. Speed.

A movable sink for a wash bowl, with closet.

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.

Beveled on the lower side, so as to fit a chamfered countersink; as, a countersunk nailhead.

To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear. Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire. Dryden. Like falcons, cowering on the nest. Goldsmith.

only in the expression en creux. Thus, engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the design.

The sun, as the orb of day. [Poetic] So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. Milton.

xtinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue declines; religion declines; business declines. That empire must decline Whose chief support and sinews are of coin. Waller. And presume to know . . . Who thrives, and who…

To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel. It would . . . deepen the bed of the Tiber. Addison.

At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply.

A sinking away; a swooning. [Obs.] Bacon.

To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse. [Obs.] The water in which it was demerged. Boyle.

To fall in value; to become of less worth; to sink in estimation; as, a paper currency will depreciate, unless it is convertible into specie.