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ment 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 deepen. [Obs.]

Having no depth; shallow.

To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.

A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit. Ye powers and spirits of this nethermost abyss. Milton. The throne is darkness, in the abyss of light. Dryden.

A depth of water so great that only those organisms can exist that do not assimilate.

lows spontaneously like a fountain. They are usually of small diameter and often of great depth.

ubstance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing.

An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile.

An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line.

Descriptive of the ocean depth; as, a bathygraphic chart.

Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea.

The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea.

The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body.

d with calenture. [Poetic] Hath fed on pageants floating through the air Or calentures in depths of limpid flood. Wordsworth.

dened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.

To come or gather around; to inclose; to encompass; to confine. The depth closed me round about. Jonah ii. 5. But now thou dost thyself immure and close In some one corner of a feeble heart. Herbert. A closed sea, a sea within the jurisdiction of some particular nation, which controls its navigation.…

An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.

The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance.

A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head.