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Sink :: Sink (v. i.) To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.

Sink :: Sink (v. t.) To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die..

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.

Dip :: Dip (v. i.) To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.

Flop :: Flop (v. i.) To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground..

Stoop :: Stoop (v. i.) To sink when on the wing; to alight.

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

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

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

Buoy :: Buoy (v. t.) To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up..

Pregravitate :: Pregravitate (v. i.) To descend by gravity; to sink.

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..

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..

Deeply :: Deeply (adv.) At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply..

Ballast :: Ballast (a.) Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing..

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..

Drain :: Drain (n.) That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.

Diesinker :: Diesinker (n.) An engraver of dies for stamping coins, medals, etc..

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..

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..

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