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

Dismay :: Dismay (v. t.) Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.

Sag :: Sag (n.) State of sinking or bending; sagging.

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

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..

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

Shore :: Shore (n.) A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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