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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..

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

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

Draught :: Draught (n.) A sink or drain; a privy.

Slur :: Slur (n.) In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them..

Imbed :: Imbed (v. t.) To sink or lay, as in a bed; to deposit in a partly inclosing mass, as of clay or mortar; to cover, as with earth, sand, etc..

Seine :: Seine (n.) A large net, one edge of which is provided with sinkers, and the other with floats. It hangs vertically in the water, and when its ends are brought together or drawn ashore incloses the fish..

Settle :: Settle (n.) To cause to sink; to lower; to depress; hence, also, to render close or compact; as, to settle the contents of a barrel or bag by shaking it..

Fade :: Fade (a.) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.

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

Founder :: Founder (v. i.) To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship..

Sag :: Sag (v. i.) To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag one way or another; a door sags on its hinges..

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..

Vail :: Vail (v. t.) To let fail; to allow or cause to sink.

Quail :: Quail (v. i.) To become quelled; to become cast down; to sink under trial or apprehension of danger; to lose the spirit and power of resistance; to lose heart; to give way; to shrink; to cower.

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

Bog :: Bog (n.) A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.

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

Post :: Post (v. i.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting..

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..

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