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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.

by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut.

means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle. To die in harness, to die with armor on; hence, colloquially, to die while actively engaged in work or duty.

ible sound by forcing an expiratory current of air through the narrow passage between the depressed soft palate and the root of the tongue, thus aiding in the removal of foreign substances.

Sick at heart; extremely depressed in spirits; very despondent.

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

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

opean bird of the genus Upupa (U. epops), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure. Called also hoop, whoop. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus and allied genera.

umber of planes, projecting from the hull of a submarine boat, which by being elevated or depressed cause the boat, when going ahead, to sink or rise, after the manner of an aëroplane.

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