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Swim :: Swim (v. i.) To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed..

Sink :: Sink (n.) A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.

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

Reside :: Reside (v. i.) To sink; to settle, as sediment..

Sink :: Sink (v. i.) Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely..

Drakestone :: Drakestone (n.) A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes..

Wane :: Wane (v. i.) To decline; to fail; to sink.

Swamp :: Swamp (v. t.) To plunge or sink into a swamp.

Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir..

Prostrate :: Prostrate (v. t.) To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever..

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

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

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

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..

Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water..

Swampy :: Swamp (v. i.) To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked..

Bore :: Bore (v. i.) To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects)..

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

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..

Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice..

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