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Without elevations or depressions; flat; level; smooth; even. See Plane. The crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. Isa. xl. 4.

Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.

gree; step; stage; hence, position or condition attained; as, a point of elevation, or of depression; the stock fell off five points; he won by tenpoints. "A point of precedence." Selden. "Creeping on from point to point." Tennyson. A lord full fat and in good point. Chaucer.

A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into the pool.

ding action of stones or gravel whirled round by the water in what was at first a natural depression of the rock.

ucing foreign authority into England, the penalties for which were originally intended to depress the civil power of the pope in the kingdom.

To bear down; to depress. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

f the arteries and consequently an increase of the arterial blood pressure; -- opposed to depressor. Landois & Stirling.

lourished before the Council of Nice, A. D. 325. Shipley. -- Primitive groove (Anat.), a depression or groove in the epiblast of the primitive streak. It is not connected with the medullary groove, which appears later and in front of it. -- Primitive plane (Spherical Projection), the plane upon which the projections…

Dejection; depression. [Obs.] Wiseman.

The condition of being prostrate; great depression; lowness; dejection; as, a postration of spirits. "A sudden prostration of strength." Arbuthnot.

Dotted with small spots of color, or with minute depressions or pits.

A mount permitting easy and quick elevation or depression and training of the gun, and fitting with a device for taking up the recoil.

An action included by vital resistance to some other action; depression or exhaustion of vital force consequent on overexertion or overstimulation; heightened activity and overaction succeeding depression or shock.

ct or process of removing a cataract, by applying the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one. Dunglison.

gain; to restore strength, spirit, animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew; to reanimate; as, sleep refreshes the body and the mind. Chaucer. Foer they have refreshed my spirit and yours. 1 Cor. xvi. 18. And labor shall refresh itself with hope. Shak.…

rength, spirit, vigor, or liveliness; relief after suffering; new life or animation after depression.

To raise or remove, as anything which depresses, weighs down, or cruches; to render less burdensome or afflicting; to allevate; to- abate; to mitigate; to lessen; as, to relieve pain; to relieve the wants of the poor.

ork; (2) in leveling up any part of an etched plate that has been worked so as to cause a depression.

Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; -- applied to the health, spirits, and the like.