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Quant :: Quant (n.) A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.

Countersinking :: Countersinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Countersin.

Deliquium :: Deliquium (n.) A sinking away; a swooning.

Costeaning :: Costeaning (n.) The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits..

Waft :: Waft (v. t.) To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy.

Shore :: Shore (n.) A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging..

Cadence :: Cadence (n.) The act or state of declining or sinking.

Support :: Support (v. t.) To keep from failing or sinking; to solace under affictive circumstances; to assist; to encourage; to defend; as, to support the courage or spirits..

Buoy :: Buoy (v. t.) To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up..

Descension :: Descension (n.) The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation.

Depression :: Depression (n.) A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions..

Suffer :: Suffer (v. t.) To endure or undergo without sinking; to support; to sustain; to bear up under.

Barratry :: Barratry (n.) A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of the mariners, to the injury of the owner of the ship or cargo, and without his consent. It includes every breach of trust committed with dishonest purpose, as by running away with the ship, sinking or deserting her, etc., or by embezzling the cargo..

Depression :: Depression (n.) The state of being depressed; a sinking.

Swain :: Swaggy (a.) Inclined to swag; sinking, hanging, or leaning by its weight..

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.

Suspension :: Suspensible (a.) Capable of being suspended; capable of being held from sinking.

Amortization :: Amortization (n.) The extinction of a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund; also, the money thus paid..

Sinking :: Sinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sin.

Introcession :: Introcession (n.) A depression, or inward sinking of parts..

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