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Decline :: Decline (v. i.) A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline..

Sinking :: Sinking () a. & n. from Sink.

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

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..

Wade :: Wade (v. i.) To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc..

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

Fall :: Fall (n.) A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence..

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

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

Forcer :: Forcer (n.) A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc..

Endure :: Endure (v. t.) To bear with patience; to suffer without opposition or without sinking under the pressure or affliction; to bear up under; to put up with; to tolerate.

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

Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) Hence, to keep from sinking, as in despondence, or the like; to support..

Sagging :: Sagging (n.) A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. Hogging..

Quicksand :: Quicksand (n.) Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it..

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 support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.

Bead Proof :: Bead proof () Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters..

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

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

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