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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..

Bog :: Bog (v. t.) To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire..

Diesinking :: Diesinking (n.) The process of engraving dies.

Commode :: Commode (n.) A movable sink or stand for a wash bowl, with closet..

Depress :: Depress (v. t.) To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes..

Sag :: Sag (v. i.) Fig.: To lose firmness or elasticity; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced..

Scuttle :: Scuttle (v. t.) To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship..

Swamp :: Swamp (v. t.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.

Immersion :: Immersion (n.) The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx..

Buoy :: Buoy (v. t.) To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.

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..

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

Subside :: Subside (v. i.) To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.

Decline :: Decline (v. i.) To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue declines; religion declines; business declines..

N :: N () the fourteenth letter of English alphabet, is a vocal consonent, and, in allusion to its mode of formation, is called the dentinasal or linguanasal consonent. Its commoner sound is that heard in ran, done; but when immediately followed in the same word by the sound of g hard or k (as in single, sink, conquer), it usually represents the same sound as the digraph ng in sing, bring, etc. This is a simple but related sound, and is called the gutturo-nasal consonent. See Guide to Pronunciation,

Deeply :: Deeply (adv.) At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply..

Demerge :: Demerge (v. t.) To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse.

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

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

Unswell :: Unswell (v. t.) To sink from a swollen state; to subside.

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