Definition of depression

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Depression (n.) A method of operating for cataract; couching. See Couch, v. t., 8..

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Downthrow :: Downthrow (n.) The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n..
Prostration :: Prostration (n.) The condition of being prostrate; great depression; lowness; dejection; as, a postration of spirits..
Depression :: Depression (n.) The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon.
Scrobiculated :: Scrobiculated (a.) Having numerous small, shallow depressions or hollows; pitted..
Trough :: Trough (n.) Any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape; as, trough between two ridges, etc..
Stop :: Stop (n.) The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds..
Melancholy :: Melancholy (n.) Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.
Shallow-waisted :: Shallow-waisted (a.) Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel..
Flat :: Flat (superl.) Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane..
Loneliness :: Loneliness (n.) A feeling of depression resulting from being alone.
Fovea :: Fovea (n.) A slight depression or pit; a fossa.
Navel :: Navel (n.) A mark or depression in the middle of the abdomen; the umbilicus. See Umbilicus.
Prosternation :: Prosternation (n.) Dejection; depression.
Damp :: Damp (n.) Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind.
Filling :: Filling (n.) That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc..
Thesis :: Thesis (n.) The depression of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word.
Glenoid :: Glenoid (a.) Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; socketlike; -- applied to several articular surfaces of bone; as, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates..
Mortification :: Mortification (n.) Hence: Deprivation or depression of self-approval; abatement or pride; humiliation; chagrin; vexation.
Undulated :: Undulated (a.) Formed with elevations and depressions resembling waves; having wavelike color markings; as, an undulated shell..
Console :: Console (v. t.) To cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe.
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