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To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above. And ever-living lamps depend in rows. Pope.

The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support.

A thing hanging down; a dependence.

Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.

To lay down. [R.] Southey.

To lay down; to divest one's self of; to lay aside. [Obs.] Thus when the state one Edward did depose, A greater Edward in his room arose. Dryden.

To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich alluvium. The fear is deposited in conscience. Jer. Taylor.

The act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation. The deposition of rough sand and rolled pebbles. H. Miller.

To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes. "With lips depressed." Tennyson.

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

Able or tending to depress or cast down. -- De*press"ive*ness, n.

One who, or that which, presses down; an oppressor.

The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface,or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops.

To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend. The rain descended, and the floods came. Matt. vii. 25. We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.…

Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards. Descending constellations or signs (Astron.), those through which the planets descent toward the south. -- Descending node (Astron.), that point in a planet's orbit where it intersects the ecliptic in passing southward. -- Descending series (Math.), a series in which eac…

The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation. Oblique descension (Astron.), the degree or arc of the equator which descends, with a celestial object, below the horizon of an oblique sphere. -- Right descension, the degree or arc of the equator which descends below the horizon of a ri…

Tending to descend; tending downwards; descending. Smart.

The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

A looking down; a despising. [R.] W. Montagu.

A looking down; despection. [Obs.]