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A recess or sharp depression in any surface.

To point out with the finger; to indicate. [Obs.] The depressing this finger, . . . in the right hand indigitate six hundred. Sir T. Browne.

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

A cutting or engraving; a figure cut into something, as a gem, so as to make a design depressed below the surface of the material; hence, anything so carved or impressed, as a gem, matrix, etc.; -- opposed to cameo. Also used adjectively.

A depression, or inward sinking of parts.

state produced by the use of iodine and its compounds, and characterized by palpitation, depression, and general emaciation, with a pustular eruption upon the skin.

Depression of the jaw; hence, depression of spirits. M. Griffith (1660).

A projection in a mold, to form a depression in the surface of the brick.

A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.

A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area.

To make lethargic. All bitters are poison, and act by stilling, and depressing, and lethargizing the irritability. Coleridge.

A surgical instrument used to raise a depressed part of the skull.

Marked longitudinally with depressed parallel lines; as, a lineate leaf.

A feeling of depression resulting from being alone.

Having a feeling of depression or sadness resulting from the consciousness of being alone; lonesome. I am very often alone. I don't mean I am lonely. H. James.

Conscious of, and somewhat depressed by, solitude; as, to feel lonesome. -- Lone"some*ly, adv. -- Lone"some*ness, n.

Occupying an inferior position or place; not high or elevated; depressed in comparison with something else; as, low ground; a low flight.

Deficient in animation and courage; dejected; depressed; not sprightly. -- Low"-spir`it*ed*ness, n.

To depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun; to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes.

rnamented by means of an imitation or suggestion of quilting, the surface being marked by depressed lines which form squares or lozenges in relief; as, matelassé silks.