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▪ I. subsiding, vbl. n.|səbˈsaɪdɪŋ|
[f. subside v. + -ing1.]
= subsidence.
1672Boyle New Exper. Flame & Air 13 The subsiding of the Mercury. a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. vii. 190 Strabo..attributes those great Floods and Inundations to the elevation and subsiding of the Moles terrestris. 1741Monro Anat. Bones (ed. 3) 17 A regular alternate Elevation and subsiding, or an apparent Pulsation. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 151 Mixing a small quantity of alum with the water accelerates the subsiding of the starch.
b. attrib. (cf. subsidence 6.)
1892Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Sept. 1/3 Subsiding beds were provided so that the fluid portion of the river was alone supplied to the consumers.
▪ II. subsiding, ppl. a.|səbˈsaɪdɪŋ|
[f. subside v. + -ing2.]
That subsides, in various senses of the verb.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 68 The subsiding powder dryed, retaines some magneticall vertue. 1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 353/1 Edulcorate the subsiding Pouder, by many affusions of fair Water. 1700Dryden Iliad i. 711 With Terror trembled Heav'ns subsiding Hill. 1769E. Bancroft Guiana 279 The liquor is decanted from the subsiding bread, and drank. 1779Mirror No. 66 Specifying..the subsiding state of her affections towards them. 1839Darwin Voy. Nat. xxii. 561 That class of widely-encircling reefs, which indicate a subsiding land. 1889Ld. Lytton Let. to W. Ward 25 Sept., The after effects of its subsiding eddies. |