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

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

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) The gradual sinking of a building, whether by the yielding of the ground under the foundation, or by the compression of the joints or the material..

Creux :: Creux (n.) Used in English only in the expression en creux. Thus, engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the design..

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

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

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

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..

Trepan :: Trepan (n.) A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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