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Dejected; depressed; sunk. [R.] All these and more came flocking, but with looks Downcast and damp. Milton.

Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base. The Netherlands . . . were reduced practically to a very degraded condition. Motley.

Pressed or forced down; lowed; sunk; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled.

; depression or dejection of the mind. The unhappy prince seemed, during some days, to be sunk in despondency. Macaulay.

A projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it.

A way or road dug through a hill, or sunk below the surface of the land. [U.S.]

r depressions; level without inclination; plane. Though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. Milton.

nder Wandering. -- Floating light, a light shown at the masthead of a vessel moored over sunken rocks, shoals, etc., to warn mariners of danger; a light- ship; also, a light erected on a buoy or floating stage. -- Floating liver. (Med.) See Wandering liver, under Wandering. -- Floating pier, a landing stage or pier…

Consisting of cards of one suit. Flush bolt. (a) A screw bolt whose head is countersunk, so as to be flush with a surface. (b) A sliding bolt let into the face or edge of a door, so as to be flush therewith. -- Flush deck. (Naut.) See under Deck, n., 1. -- Flush tank, a water tank which can be emptied rapidly for flu…

A small mine, in the form of a well sunk from the surface of the ground, charged with explosive and projectiles. It is made in a position likely to be occupied by the enemy.

The first shaft sunk. Raymond.

An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement.

A structure of gabions sunk in lines, as a core for a sand bar in harbor improvements.

pherical form. Globules of snow. Sir I. Newton. These minute globules [a mole's eyes] are sunk . . . deeply in the skull. Paley.

A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See Triglyph.

A sunk fence; a fence, wall, or ditch, not visible till one is close upon it. [Written also haw-haw.]

Evening. [Poetic] The Sun was sunk, and after him the Star Of Hesperus. Milton.

excessive evacuations, excessive hunger, and the like. The nose is pinched, the eyes are sunk, the temples hollow, the ears cold and retracted, the skin of the forehead tense and dry, the complexion livid, the lips pendent, relaxed, and cold; -- so called, as having been described by Hippocrates. Dunglison. -- Hippoc…

Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken. With hollow eye and wrinkled brow. Shak.

the hub, as far as possible in embarrassment or difficulty, or in business, like a wheel sunk in mire; deeply involved. [Colloq.]