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An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the depth or quantity of water, or for indicating the height of its surface, as in the boiler of a steam engine. See Gauge.
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n.
The quality or state of being shoaly; little depth of water; shallowness.
superl.
Having more depth or extent from one surface to its opposite than usual; not thin or slender; as, a thick plank; thick cloth; thick paper; thick neck.
n.
A perpendicular shaft sunk to cut the lode at any required depth.
n.
A solution of continuity in any of the soft parts of the body, discharging purulent matter, found on a surface, especially one of the natural surfaces of the body, and originating generally in a constitutional disorder; a sore discharging pus. It is distinguished from an abscess, which has its beginning, at least, in the depth of the tissues.
adv.
To a great depth, or to a greater depth than usual; as, land covered thick with manure.
a.
Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.
a.
Having a moderate depth of hold; -- said of a vessel.
v. t.
To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.
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Having no depth; shallow.
superl.
Slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering; as, a thin disguise.
n.
That which is deep; a deep, or the deepest, part or place; the deep; the middle part; as, the depth of night, or of winter.
superl.
Not deep; having little depth; shoal.
v. i.
A pit or hole sunk into the earth to such a depth as to reach a supply of water, generally of a cylindrical form, and often walled with stone or bricks to prevent the earth from caving in.
n.
Profoundness; extent or degree of intensity; abundance; completeness; as, depth of knowledge, or color.
n.
Lowness; as, depth of sound.
n.
The root of a plant which penetrates the earth directly downward to a considerable depth without dividing.
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The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful.
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The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops.
a.
Of measureless depth; unfathomable.
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