subsidentadj.

1635 D. Person Varieties v. 44 Put all this lac virgineum in the Glasse with the foresaid degree of heate every eight or ten dayes, then will appeare a black brat and mater, partly emerging and swimming above, and partly subsident.

1699 B. Allen Nat. Hist. Chalybeat & Purging Waters 23 That the Metalline parts of these Waters are purely Chalybeat, I inform'd my self..by exposing to the Air the subsident Okar, lightly calcin'd with Sea-salt, which would discover Copper if any were in it.

1827 Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts Oct. 259 The dilute acid, now of a deep crimson colour, was removed from the subsident manganese.

1889 H. C. Pennell Fishing (ed. 5) 415 By subsequent treatment of the precipitated and subsident metals.

1838 J. Leithart Pract. Observ. Mineral Veins 10 It may be called an underlying subsident vein.

1874 R. G. S. Browne Divine Revelation v. 58 Possibly, and even probably, nothing less than a long, perhaps a very long, ear, through disuse subsident.

1903 T. J. Hudson Law of Mental Med. iv. 207 The local anaesthesia or analgesia which almost invariably immediately precedes a surgical operation,—the phenomenon of the subsident toothache being typical.

1970 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 60 596/1 During summer, the Pacific sub-tropical high cell continually rests offshore, and its dry subsident anti-cyclonic flow bathes the coastal states.

2001 C. Perlès Early Neolithic Greece vii. 122 To the north, the Tyrnavos Basin became an independent and strongly subsident basin that drained the Penios and the Titarisios, coinciding with their alluvial plains.