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With an even, level, or smooth surface; without roughness, elevations, or depression; uniformly; equally; comfortably; impartially; serenely.

ity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc.

Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane. Though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. Milton.

Want of vivacity or spirit; prostration; dejection; depression.

A small cavity, tubular depression, or sac; as, a hair follicle.

counter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency; passive courage; resolute endurance; firmness in confronting or bearing up against danger or enduring trouble. Extolling patience as the truest fortitude. Milton. Fortitude is the guard and support of t…

A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossæ containing the nostrils in most birds.

Having, or surrounded by, long, narrow depressions or furrows.

A slight depression or pit; a fossa.

Having pits or depressions; pitted.

A small depression or pit; a fovea.

Having small pits or depression, as the receptacle in some composite flowers.

Measure; dimensions; estimate. The gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt. Burke.

A secluded and narrow valley; a dale; a depression between hills. And wooes the widow's daughter of the glen. Spenser.

Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; sockas, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates.

acture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.

Act of making hollow; also, a hollow; an exvation; a depression.

A recess or sharp depression in any surface.

Below the sternum; as, the infrasternal depression, or pit of the stomach.

A depression, or inward sinking of parts.