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Lying on the bottom of a river or other water; sunk.

Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.

The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.

he people are brought off from the wreck. Cat's cradle. See under Cat. -- Cradle hole, a sunken place in a road, caused by thawing, or by travel over a soft spot. -- Cradle scythe, a broad scythe used in a cradle for cutting grain.

Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base. The Netherlands . . . were reduced practically to a very degraded condition. Motley.

nder Wandering. -- Floating light, a light shown at the masthead of a vessel moored over sunken rocks, shoals, etc., to warn mariners of danger; a light- ship; also, a light erected on a buoy or floating stage. -- Floating liver. (Med.) See Wandering liver, under Wandering. -- Floating pier, a landing stage or pier…

A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See Triglyph.

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

One of the sunken panels in such a ceiling.

A sunken compartment with raised margins, molded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.

Wrinkled; full of wrinkles; specifically (Bot.), having the veinlets sunken and the spaces between them elevated, as the leaves of the sage and horehound.

A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.

A road having partly sunken transverse logs (called skids) at intervals of about five feet.

To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree. [U. S.]

Destitute or deprived of the sun or its rays; shaded; shadowed. The sunken glen whose sunless shrubs must weep. Byron.

Of or pertaining to the smallpox; having pits, or sunken impressions, like those of the smallpox; variolar; variolic.

t where the stones are left slightly higher than elsewhere, the rest of the surface being sunken or dished. The raised surface is intended to prevent the settling of water in the joints.