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Supportable :: Support (n.) That which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling, yielding, sinking, giving way, or the like; subsistence; maintenance; assistance; reenforcement; as, he gave his family a good support, the support of national credit; the assaulting column had the support of a battery..

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..

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..

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

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

Countersink :: Countersink (n.) A drill or cutting tool for countersinking holes.

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

Amortize :: Amortize (v. t.) To clear off or extinguish, as a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund..

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

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..

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

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

Cavo-rilievo :: Cavo-rilievo (n.) Hollow relief; sculpture in relief within a sinking made for the purpose, so no part of it projects beyond the plain surface around..

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