subsidedadj.

1650 E. Williams Virginia 36 Take a clod of the earth..powder it, and infuse it in a glasse full of cleare Raine-water,..let it repose till the subsided earth have made his perfect residence and settlement in the bottome.

1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xiii. 75 The Earth sinking away from the Roots, leaves the bottom of the Stalk higher than the subsided Ground.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. ix When the contents are too much for me, I lay them down; and resume them, as my subsided joy will allow.

1758 R. Dossie Elaboratory laid open 63 Let the clear water be then poured back, into the first vessel, with great care not to disturb the subsided powder.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1274 The muriate of copper is to be decanted from the subsided gypsum.

1851 Corr. Lady Lyttelton (1912) 410 I..woke with a pleasant subsided feeling.

1886 H. C. Dent Year in Brazil iii. 37 They begin with a subsidence..; the rains then work upon the subsided portion, washing it gradually away.

1919 Amer. Labor Year Bk. 2 109 The memories of the heroic struggle of 1910 began to wane and the employers were counting upon the subsided enthusiasm of the workers as an asset in their favor.

1965 P. Salway Frontier People Rom. Brit. iii. 72 The subsided ruins of these buildings were levelled up with rubbish containing material of all the preceding periods.

2000 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 6 Apr. 17 Restoration will involve..filling subsided lands with dredged silt and sand from bay shipping channels.