Depression

1. n. A method of operating for cataract; couching. See Couch, v. t., 8.
2. n. The act of depressing.
3. n. The state of being depressed; a sinking.
4. 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.
5. n. Humiliation; abasement, as of pride.
6. n. Dejection; despondency; lowness.
7. n. Diminution, as of trade, etc.; inactivity; dullness.
8. n. The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon.
9. n. The operation of reducing to a lower degree; — said of equations.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.