[f. SUBSIDE v. + -ING1.] = SUBSIDENCE.

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1672.  Boyle, New Exper. Flame & Air, 13. The subsiding of the Mercury.

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a. 1676.  Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., II. vii. 190. Strabo … attributes those great Floods and Inundations to the elevation and subsiding of the Moles terrestris.

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1741.  Monro, Anat. Bones (ed. 3), 17. A regular alternate Elevation and subsiding, or an apparent Pulsation.

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1823.  J. Badcock, Dom. Amusem., 151. Mixing a small quantity of alum with the water accelerates the subsiding of the starch.

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  attrib.  (cf. SUBSIDENCE 6.)

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1892.  Pall Mall Gaz., 9 Sept., 1/3. Subsiding beds were provided so that the fluid portion of the river was alone supplied to the consumers.

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